Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 2 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
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- Should I do a PhD in Classics?
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends vengeance-minded men participating in treacherous plots.
[Sunday] … no entry
… 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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