Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 25 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Fresh Podcasts
We continue our live commentary on the 1979 epic film, CALIGULA. Picking up where we left off last week, still in Tiberius’ sex palace on Capri, with a lady holding a writhing legless lizard that she is apparently about to place inside her woo-hoo. Around the 18 minute mark of the film. This episode sees the death of Tiberius, the arrest of Macro, a bukake scene, Helen Mirren dancing and doing it doggy style, a possibly historically-inaccurate giant head mower, and Caligula providing a young couple with a wedding present to remember.
Book Reviews
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- The Ancient Novel and Material Culture | Society for Classical Studies
- Call for abstracts for ACL’s panel at SCS 2021
- The World Upside-Down: Absurdities, Inversions, and Alternate Realities – Columbia University Ancient Mediterranean Graduate Student Conference
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, the people will be incredibly happy.
… 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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