Hodie est pr. X Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 30 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Severus Alexander comes from a strong military dynasty with a string of victories against Rome’s enemies, and it’s fair to say the Roman army was less than impressed with his performance against Sassanian and Germanic tribes. The empire needs a leader! Should they turn to a fighter, or to a weakling and his mother? Guest: Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Rainer Friedrich, Postoral Homer: orality and literacy in the Homer epic. Hermes. Einzelschriften, Band 112. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
- [BMCR] David Lefebvre, Dynamis: sens et genèse de la notion aristotélicienne de puissance. Bibliothèque d’histoire de la philosophie . Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2018.
- ROMAN BRITAIN And Where To Find It – Classics for All
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends death for the flies.
… 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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