Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 2 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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Fresh Youtubery
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- BMCR ~ Richard D. McKirahan, A vocabulary of the ancient commentators on Aristotle: combining the Greek-English indexes from the eponymous series spanning works from the 2nd century CE to late antiquity. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Lucien van Beek, The reflexes of syllabic liquids in ancient Greek: linguistic prehistory of the Greek dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache. Leiden studies in Indo-European, 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends peace for the city.
… 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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