Hodie est Non. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 21 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Iron Age Settlement With Large Roundhouses and Roman Trinkets Found in the UK
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Fresh Bloggery
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- PaleoJudaica.com: More on the passing of Norman Golb
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 178
- The First World War in Pat Barker’s ‘The Silence of the Girls’ – Tragic Geek
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- Shining Fame and Deceptive Tales: Pindar’s First Olympian – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Early Bronze Age necropolis unearthed in Brittany
- The Chicago 2021 AIA/SCS Annual Meetings will be virtual. But prepare for a vortex of great RU Classics presentations |
- The non-poinsettia – Mainzer Beobachter
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman road remains uncovered in Northumberland
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Blog-like Publications
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- Hellenic Studies Folio #5 from the Center for Hellenic Studies | Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece
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Fresh Youtubery
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Online Talks and Professional Matters
- CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN – BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES
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- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
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- In the battle against antiquities trafficking, Germany develops app to identify looted cultural heritage | The Art Newspaper
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends good health for the flocks.
… 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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