Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 7 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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In this episode of Accessible Art History: The Podcast, I unearth the story of the “lost city” of Troy!
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends events that will disturb the state and while fish will increase, dangerous wild animals will die.
… 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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