Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 5 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Murray ponders this query from Michael watching on youtube, ‘maybe a side note to this is to draw parallels with the Celtic invasions of Greece and how they fought the phalanx? Or what Hannibal learnt from his Spanish war, and how he applied that against the legions.’
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Nunzia Ciano, Gli Aratea di Cicerone: saggio di commento ai frammenti di tradizione indiretta con approfondimenti a luoghi scelti (frr. 13 e 18). Bari: Edipuglia, 2019.
- [BMCR] Wim Broekaert, Elena Köstner, Christian Rollinger, The ties that bind. Ancient politics and network research. Journal of historical network research, 4. Luxembourg: Université du Luxembourg, 2020.
- [BMCR] Simone Eid Paturel, Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa, and Berytus from 100 BCE to 400 CE: a landscape transformed. Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, volume 426. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a brief famine.
… 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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