Hodie est a.d. XVIII Kal. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 24 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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Fresh Podcasts
Liv speaks with PhD student Freddie Kimpton about the fascinating use of time and chronology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses!
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Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ David Ebrey, Richard Kraut, The Cambridge companion to Plato. Second edition. Cambridge companions to philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ David Hendin, Guide to Biblical coins. 6th edition. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Christopher Gill, Learning to live naturally: Stoic ethics and its modern significance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
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Alia
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- OP/ED: Cleopatra: We Know Her Name, But Do We Know Her Race? – The Impact
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 good health and prosperity.
… 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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