This Day in Ancient History
ante diem vi idus apriles
- ludi Megalensia continue (day 5)
- 217 A.D. — murder of the emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla)
- 1898 — Birth of Maurice Bowra (The Greek Experience)
- 1979 — death of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)
