Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 25 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Fröhlich (ed.), Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts (Mohr Siebeck)
- Fascinating extra stuff at Google Translate for Latin – Roger Pearse
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Poetics of Plot in the Egyptian and Judean Novella
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Fresh Podcasts
The cloaca maxima is the great sewer of Rome. A tad smelly but highly functional, it funneled water and waste increasing health and sanitation, and earned admiration for its importance to the people. Guest: Dr Gillian Shepherd (Trendall Centre, La Trobe University)
A conversation with Paul Stephenson (Penn State University) about the impact of lead mining and smelting on the miners themselves, the communities around them, and on plants, animals, and human beings across the Roman empire. This is part of a broader and ongoing project on metallurgy and environmental violence. Paul integrates the recent science of Roman lead into his history of the empire, in New Rome: The Empire in the East (Harvard University Press 2022).
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Book Reviews
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- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the people being oppressed by the king.
… 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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