Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 20 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
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Just a quick reading of the first two choral odes from Euripides’ Helen, translated by EP Coleridge. They’re very good and don’t fit in with the full narrative episode. This is not a standard narrative story episode, it’s a reading of an ancient source, audiobook style. For regular episodes look for any that don’t have “Liv Reads…” in the title!
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends that the lower class people will be gloomy.
… 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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