Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 4 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends imported abundance.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. VII Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 3 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the acquisition of foreign slaves.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 2 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the beginning of new business among the common folk.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 1 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• The Plague and the Peloponnesian War – War on the Rocks

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends 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)

Notice of this appeared in my email (via David Pritchard) and near as I can tell, it is not easily shareable right now even though it is probably very appropriate for the times.  Descriptions are clipped from their pages:

• Stavroula Kefallonitis (Lyon 2020), Welcome Speech, Video Recording, The Funeral Oration and Nicole Loraux: 19 February 2020: A Study Day at Le Collegium de Lyon (France)
• David M. Pritchard (Lyon 2020), ‘L’oraison funèbre après Loraux’ and Bernd Steinbock, ‘The Epitaphios Logos of Pericles: Thucydides’s Ambivalence towards the Funeral Oration’, with Closing Remarks by Marie Durnerin
  • [text of DMP’s paper is apparently reproduced here: When French historians of ancient Greece conquered the world | Comment | ekathimerini.com
• Dominique Lenfant (Lyon 2020), ‘L’oraison funèbre comme autoportrait de la démocratie athénienne’, with Opening Remarks by Christophe Cusset and Closing Remarks by Halima Benchikh-Lehocine
• François Lissarrague (Lyon 2020), ‘Nicole Loraux et la belle mort athénienne’ and Johannes Wienand, ‘”Living Tombs”: Approaching the Epitaphios Logos of Gorgias’, with Opening Remarks by Madalina Dana and Closing Remarks by Pierre Balmond
• Pascale Brillet-Dubois (Lyon 2020), ‘Nicole Loraux et la tragédie: Un contrepoint à l’Invention d’Athènes’ and Christophe Pébarthe, ‘Qu’est que “l’anthropologie historique”: Réflexions historiographiques sur l’École de Paris’, with Opening Remarks by Richard Bouchon and Closing Remarks by Antoine Chabod,