Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Octobres 2772 AUC ~  26 Boedromion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• The Temple of Vesta by When in Rome

The Vestal Virgins carried out some of the most important rituals in the Roman Empire, and their temple was revered and unique in its structure and function. You can still see the remains of it in the Roman Forum, but as with many Roman buildings there’s less to it than meets the eye.

Guest: Dr Peta Greenfield (Public Historian, co-host of ‘The Partial Historians’)

• ‎VPR Classical Timeline: Stratonicus – Sharp-Tongued Citharist 

During the time of Alexander the Great, the city of Athens gave rise to something new in Greek culture. Up to this point, music was seen as subordinate to words; melody and rhythm worked in service to text or “logos.” Around 5th century BCE “The New Music” movement challenged these ideas introducing songs without words, new musical tools like modulation, intense competitions and a new instrument, the cithara. The cithara was a concert lyre with as many as eleven strings. The greatest virtuoso on this new instrument was the famed Stratonicus of Athens; at least that’s how he tells the story.

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Book Reviews

• • [BMCR] Meike Rühl, Ciceros Korrespondenz als Medium literarischen und gesellschaftlichen Handelns. Mnemosyne. Supplements, 422. 
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  • [BMCR] AnneMarie Luijendijk, William E. Klingshirn (ed.), My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 188. 

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• Ancient worldviews might shed light on our contemporary culture wars | National Catholic Reporter 
• Stop saying America’s problems are like ancient Rome’s decline – The Washington Post 
• Rome raises the price of visiting the Colosseum – The Local 
• Incredible story of how one FART may have killed 10,000 people in Ancient Egypt 

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it should thunder today, it portends a drought. There will be an abundant harvest from the nut trees in late autumn, but they will be destroyed by storms.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)