Hodie est a.d. III id. Sext. 2774 AUC ~ 3 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Household Items in Ancient Pompeii w. Dr Ria Berg on Apple Podcasts

The Pompeiians had a wide variety of products at their disposal. Dr Ria Berg, Director, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, joins the show to discuss the products that were being used in Pompeii by the 1st century CE.

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Book Reviews

• Why Study History? (M.) Collins and (P.N.) Stearns. Pp. viii+197. London: London Publishing Partnership, 2020.
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• Vincent Obsopoeus: How to Drink. A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing. (M.) Fontaine (ed., trans.). Pp. xxxii + 285. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Clifford Ando, William P. Sullivan, The discovery of the fact. Law and society in the ancient world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
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Dramatic Receptions

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

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Alia

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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:

If it thunders today, it portends a good harvest, but things will be bad for reptiles and harmful to humans.

… 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)