Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 13 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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From his childhood in Australia spent reading about the ancient world to his current role as director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Tim Potts has always thought globally. Potts’s broad experiences as a PhD student at Oxford, banker at Lehman Brothers, and director at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia, Fitzwilliam in England, and Kimbell in Texas have shaped his approach to the Getty’s collections and programs.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a major uprising for the state, although there will be more fish and dangerous beasts will die.
… 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)
