Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 25 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Book Reviews
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- [BMCR] Federica Carugati, Creating a constitution: law, democracy, and growth in ancient Athens. . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a very dry and destructive summer.
… 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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