Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 22 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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Book Reviews
- BMCR – Nikos Agiotis, Leon Magentenos. Commentary on Aristotle, Prior Analytics (Book II): critical edition with introduction and translation. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 5. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- BMCR – Fiona Mitchell, Monsters in Greek literature: aberrant bodies in ancient Greek cosmogony, ethnography, and biology. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021.
- BMCR – Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, Johan Weststeijn, Late Antique responses to the Arab conquests. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 5. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends a shortage of necessities
[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends both famine and war
… 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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