Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 1 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Public Facing Classics

• Party pooper on the remains of Pliny the Elder – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Some Presocratic Truth(s) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Fresh Podcasts

• Episode Two: “Waiting in the Wings” | Maximum Fun

I, Podius ain’t your daddy’s I, Claudius-based podcast! On Episode 2 hosts John Hodgman and Elliott Kalan recap “Waiting in the Wings” and take a special dispatch from the empire from listener Leah.

Book Reviews

• VALERIUS MAXIMUS: FACTA ET DICTA MEMORABILIA, BOOK 8 (Text, Introduction, and Commentary) – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• Theatre Department presents ‘Antigone’ | East Tennessean

Professional Matters

• CALL. 15.03.2020: [PANEL 11] Emotions and the Body in Greco-Roman Medicine (SCS2021) – Chicago (IL, USA)
• CALL. 24.03.2020: [PANEL 10] Hybrid Epicenters: Peripheral Adaptation in Flavian Literature (SCS2021) – Chicago (IL, USA)
• F13 Pindar, Early Greek Philosophy & Greek Religion | UCL Online Store
• CALL. 01.05.2020: VI Congreso Internacional de Mitocrítica: “Mito y Ciencia Ficción”- Madrid (Spain)

‘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, it portends good health for human beings but destruction for fish and reptiles.

… 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)