Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 3 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Continuing my examination of the Roman kings I talk about Tullus Hostilius, the third Roman king. Tulls was primarily associated with Rome’s military exploits and had a hand in a famous myth. He also had more than a hand in a death which shocked even Livy. From war to religious problems and a bizarre death. It’s all here.
By 272 B.C., the throne of Macedon now lay firmly in the hands of Antigonus II Gonatas. As a “philosoper-king”, the court of Pella would play host to a great amount of intellectual celebrities of the early Hellenistic period, and peace would return Macedon to a state of prosperity. The situation would be different in Greece, as stirrings of rebellion would break out, first during the Chremonidean War, and later due to the rise of Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, Roman Republican Augury. Freedom and Control. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Richard Stoneman, The Greek Experience of India. From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Marc Vandersmissen, Discours des personnages féminins chez Sénèque : Approches logométriques et contrastives d’un corpus théâtral. Collection Latomus, Volume 359. Leuven, Bruxelles: Peeters Publishers, 2019.
- [BMCR] Leendert Weeda, Horace’s Sermones Book 1: Credentials for Maecenas. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
Professional Matters
- CFP: Classical Controversies in 2020 | Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
- Lecturer in Mediterranean Studies for the Department of Classical Studies job with MASARYK UNIVERSITY | 194304
- ASOR Annual Meeting 2020 – 18-19-20-21/11/2020, Boston (MA, USA)
- CALL. 15.02.2020: [SESSION 1] “Archaeology of Lebanon“(ASOR 2020) – Boston (MA, USA)
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the outbreak of illnesses.
… 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)
