Hodie est a.d. III Non. Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 16 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- The Druid’s Temple – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
“I think we can all empathize with someone who’s like a son, or in this case, an adopted son, trying to kind of make his own mark and escape the shadow of his father, and leave something on the world of his own.” In the year 79 CE, Pliny the Elder set out to investigate … Continue reading “The Legacies of Pliny the Elder and Younger”
Crixus is dead. Spartacus has given up on crossing the Alps. And he has a new enemy: a man with endless money, endless resources, and a lot to prove. Nobody asked for more Crassus. Not Spartacus, not the Roman Senate, and not the hundred thousand people following Spartacus to a better life. But in this episode, that’s exactly what everyone is going to get. In this episode, Spartacus faces off against the Roman Republic’s richest man, sine missione: to the death. No quarter given; no mercy shown. Only one can emerge from this conflict alive.
Alia
- On this day in 47 BC, Queen Cleopatra VII places her son as her partner in ruling Egypt – Egypt Today
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends heavy rains and war.
… 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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