Hodie est a.d. VI Non. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Fresh Podcasts
The fourth and final episode in our series on Troy: Fall of a City, discussing episodes seven and eight. Thank god. We repeated a number of things we’ve been saying all the way along in our final notes in this last episode about Fall of a City, but we hopefully have managed to do so in a clear and synthesized way. Thanks for coming on this four-episode journey with us, and we’ll be back in two weeks with, at last, some new material!
In the Garden of the Hesperides, Hermes gathers apples for the next leg of the journey while Perseus collects stories from the Titan Atlas, who holds up the sky.
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Christian Rollinger, Classical antiquity in video games: playing with the ancient world. Imagines – classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- [BMCR] Richard Hunter, Rebecca Laemmle, Euripides: Cyclops. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends an end to threatening events.
… 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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