Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Sext. 2772 AUC ~ 9 Hekatombaion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Fresh Bloggery
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Fresh Podcasts
Where do I begin with the cuisine and food of the Byzantine Empire? This is a daunting task as this was an Empire stretching 3 continents at its peak and with over 1100 years history!…
In this episode I discuss four mountains which featured in ancient Greece. How did they feature in the local myths? What happened on them? I cover this as well as the more obscure mountain associations, from bizarre marital advice, singing competitions to very bad family cooking.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Lukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò, Marek Węcowski, Change, continuity, and connectivity: north-eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age. Philippika: Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, 118. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018.
- [BMCR] Mark William Padilla, Classical myth in Alfred Hitchcock’s Wrong Man and Grace Kelly films. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019.
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a shortage of water and a plague of poisonous lizards.
… 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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