Hodie est pr. VIII Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 2 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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My guest today is Anthony Poulton-Smith – Freelance Journalist, Author of 78 books, and many more articles, ghostwriter, speaker and etymologist. Chair of Tamworth Literary Festival, Tamworth History Group. He spoke to me recently about the Latin roots of some of my favourite words. You know what I’m talking about.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Vicente Flores Militello, tali dignus amico: Die Darstellung des patronus-cliens-Verhältnisses bei Horaz, Martial und Juvenal. Classica Monacensia, 54. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2019.
- [BMCR] Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Hans Beck, Verlierer und Aussteiger in der “Konkurrenz unter Anwesenden”: Agonalität in der politischen Kultur des antiken Rom. . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
- [BMCR] Javier Martínez Jiménez, Isaac Sastre de Diego, Carlos Tejerizo García, The Iberian Peninsula between 300 and 850 : an archaeological perspective. Late antique and early medieval Iberia 6. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends discord among those in power and their schemes will be revealed.
… 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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