Hodie est pr Kal. Sept. 2774 AUC ~ 23 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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Greek calendars, in the first millennium BCE, were plentiful and varied. Professor Alexander Jones, New York University, joins the show to explain ancient calendars in this period and region of the Mediterranean.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
No entry for today!
… 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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