Hodie est a.d. III Non. Apr. 2774 AUC ~ 21 Elaphebolion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Rosa Andújar, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Greeks and Romans on the Latin American stage. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- [BMCR] Gillian Spalding-Stracey, The Cross in the visual culture of late antique Egypt. Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity, 19. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
- Actes de la IIIe Conférence Archéologique Internationale « Forum olbien | «Spartokos a lu
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- 1800-year-old chain armour reconstructed using video game tech | National Geographic
- How High Could Icarus Fly Before His Wings Melted? | Inside Science
- The Linear B Electronic Resources (LiBER) project LiBER
- Graffiti carved on an ancient Roman building some 1,900 years ago could be of the Crucifixion | Daily Mail Online
- Rare Photos Emerge of First Excavations at Sacred Greek Island of Delos
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends profit from imported grain.
… 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)