Hodie est pridie Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 8 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Fresh Bloggery
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- Comfort Classics: Steve Havelin – Classical Studies Support
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions
- Excerpts from Maffei, Historiae Indicae | Dickinson College Commentaries
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- The cycle of political revolution – Polybius’ timeless political thinking – Novo Scriptorium
- A Day in Ancient Rome from your Home | Latin Language Blog
- The Next Chapter: Media Archaeology, Archaeogaming, and Digital Archaeology | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- A latent frustration – Mainzer Beobachter
- Reading Tragedy Together When Sheltering Alone – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Coin Relief – Issue Two – County Pages
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- Digital Art Viewing and the Researcher ~ ARCAblog
- Community spirit under siege | The Petrified Muse
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Manfred Landfester, The reception of antiquity in Renaissance humanism. Brill’s New Pauly – Supplements, 8. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018.
- [BMCR] Peregrine Horden, Nicholas Purcell, The boundless sea: writing Mediterranean history. Variorum collected studies, 1083. London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
- [BMCR] Rachel Bryant Davies, Victorian epic burlesques: a critical anthology of nineteenth-century theatrical entertainments after Homer. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception . London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, .
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
… no entry for March 31!
… 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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