Hodie est Non. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 13 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Locals vs Persia? Interpreting Achaemenid Imperialism from the local perspective & space
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- The Roman Quests: Return to Rome, by Caroline Lawrence
- “The Rape of the Sabine Women” – A Founding Myth of Rome on my Latest Roman Denarius | ROMA INVICTA
- Authenticity criteria (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Canadian Classical Bulletin = Bulletin canadien des études anciennes (CCB)
- Comfort Classics: Klara Hegedus – Classical Studies Support
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- Her, His, Its, & Their in Latin: Eius & Eorum vs Suus, a, um
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- Authenticity criteria (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- To Save State And People, Make Like Solon and Shake it Off – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Misunderstanding: Lost Books – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Roman Constitution – Novo Scriptorium
- Arrian I.26.1-5 | The Second Achilles
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- The Ruin Exceeding our Stockpiles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- [BMCR] K. Nilüfer Akçay, Porphyry’s ‘On the cave of the nymphs’ in its intellectual context. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, volume 23. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Brian K. Harvey, Daily Life in Ancient Rome. A Sourcebook. Edited and translated, with an introduction. Indianapolis: Focus, 2016.
- DE ROMANIS BOOK 1: DEI ET DEAE – Classics for All
- A PORTABLE COSMOS: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World – Classics for All
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- From Herodotus to Spengler. Comparing Civilisations throughout Time and Space 13-14/11/2020, Palo Alto, CA (USA)
- Greek Tragedy, Black Swans, and the Coronavirus: The Consolation of Theatre |
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- Opinion: An Ancient Greek Tragedy Holds a Mirror to Trump’s Coronavirus Leadership – Times of San Diego
- Pompeii: The Immortal City exhibit ‘stuck’ at the MAC, new online programs start this month – KXLY
- Take it like a Stoic: coping in the time of coronavirus | CBC Radio
- Finding Wonderful Things | History Today
- Gladiators return to Virtus Iulia | Culture | THE COUNTRY
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends an early summer but a generally healthy year.
… 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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