Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 18 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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This week, we’re back on the boat to the Trojan War where Agamemnon has a problem. I mean, he always has a lot of problems, but this one involves a bunch of warriors with nothing to do but wait for the winds to pick up, and they’re not going to pick up until Agamemnon does what needs to be done.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Dario Mantovani, Les juristes écrivains de la Rome antique: les oeuvres des juristes comme litterature. Docet omnia. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2018.
- [BMCR] Sheramy D. Bundrick, Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Patrick Baker, Johannes Helmrath, Craig Kallendorf (ed.), Beyond Reception: Renaissance Humanism and the Transformation of Classical Antiquity. Transformationen der Antike, 62. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Theodore A. Bergren, A Latin-Greek index of the Vulgate New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 403. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.
- [BMCR] Paul White, Gallus Reborn. A Study of the Diffusion and Reception of Works Ascribed to Gaius Cornelius Gallus. Routledge Focus on Classical Studies. London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
- [BMCR] Roz Kaveney, Catullus. The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus: Some English Versions. Bristol: Sad Press, 2018.
- CASSANDRA AND THE POETICS OF PROPHECY IN GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE – Classics for All
- The Classical Trouble With Daniel Mendelsohn – The Forward
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- The Unknown Volcanic Wines of Pompeii
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it should thunder today, it portends the weakening of men to such an extent that they will be unrecognizable.
… 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)
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