Hodie est a.d. V Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 19 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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We continue our look at the development of Corinth in the series. Last episode we ended with the period of tyranny that had lasted two generations and ended with the assassination of the third. However, Corinth would continue to flourish, with cultural and economic advances taking place. Corinth would end up hosting one of the Pan Hellenic games, being one of the first mainland cities to mint their own coins, while large public building would begin to dot the Acropolis….
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends heavy rain and an outbreak of locusts
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends danger for a politician or general and battles will be waged for his sake and wild beasts will attack humans.
… 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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