Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Aug. 2774 AUC ~ 15 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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Blog-like Publications
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Assorted Twitter Threads
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Fresh Youtubery
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Tim Whitmarsh, Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon books I-II. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Sarrazin Bélanger, Alain Delattre, Daniel Demaiffe, Natasja De Winter, Alain Martin, Georges Raepsaet, Marie-Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, Iaô sabaôth: pratiques magiques dans la cité des Tongres: une tablette de défixion mise en contexte. Papyrologica Bruxellensia ; 39. Bruxelles: Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2019.
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends possible misfortune for a powerful man.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a bad situation for a group of youth and also their crops. It will be a time of disease.
… 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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