Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 16 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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In this episode of ClassiCasts, Dr. Overholt speaks with current College of Charleston students and classics majors Jules Riddle and MC Manning about their experience at CofC and their thoughts about the field.
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Len Krisak, Joseph Michael Pucci, Prudentius’ Crown of martyrs. Liber peristephanon. Routledge later Latin poetry . London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
- [BMCR] Danuta Okoń, Album senatorum. Vol. I, Senatores ab Septimi Severi aetate usque ad Alexandrum Severum (193–235 AD). Rozprawy i Studia t. (MXLIV) 970. Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, 2017. Danuta Okoń, Album senatorum. Vol. II, Senators of the Severan Period (193–235 AD): A Prosopographic Study. Rozprawy i Studia – Uniwersytet Szczeciński, 993. Szczecin: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, 2018.
- [BMCR] Gilles Bounoure, Blandine Serret, Philostrate. Vies des Sophistes: lettres érotiques. . Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it is a bad omen for the common people.
… 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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