Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 25 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- My Epistolary Friend – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Amsler, The Babylonian Talmud and late antique book culture (CUP)
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- Archeologists discover 2000-year-old Roman coins on the deserted Swedish island of Gotska Sandön – Arkeonews
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Curt wonders why did Alexander the Great not look westwards, starting with Rome during his conquests? There are a lot of ‘what if’s’ here for Murray to deal with.
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- Archeologia solidale a Segesta, torna alla luce l’antica strada lastricata – YouTube
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Geert Roskam, Plutarch. New surveys in the classics, 47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Response: Markovich on Moore on Markovich, Promoting a new kind of education: Greek and Roman philosophical protreptic
- BMCR ~ Christopher Pelling, Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War VI. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Cluster 3 “Body and Death” – Conference October in Athens – Human Bioarchaeology
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends a plague
[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends abundance but also an outbreak of field voles.
… 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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