Hodie est Non. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 9 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Hodie primum ainigma vobis propono: ubi sum nunc?
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Lucia Raggetti, ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī’s Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts: Edition, Translation and Study of a Fluid Tradition. Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, 6. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
- [BMCR] Emanuele Berti, Lo stile e l’uomo: quattro epistole letterarie di Seneca (Sen. epist. 114; 40; 100; 84). Testi e commenti, 22. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore, 2018.
Dramatic Receptions
- Euripides play on SLU stage in Canton | NorthCountryNow
- The GreekTragedy, “Medea,” Presented by the Montverde Academy Theatre Department – Clermont Report
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Alia
- British Museum is world’s largest receiver of stolen goods, says QC | Culture | The Guardian
- The mystery of brass Roman dodecahedrons / Boing Boing
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a storm for the state and disease for both humans and animals.
… 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)
