April 25, 2011
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with someone I always considered rather *in*commodious: #17 Commodus: Emperors of Rome
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ante diem vii kalendas maias Robigalia — an ancient agricultural festival designed to appease the numen Robigo/Robigus who caused mildew 404 B.C. — Athens surrenders to Sparta, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end (by one reckoning) 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Mark the Evangelist 1940 — death of Wilhelm Dorpfeld (excavator of Tiryns)
rogue classicism 