July 13, 2011
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… and fittingly, the coins depict Apollo. From Novinite: Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered 30 bronze coins with images of Ancient Greek god Apollo dating back to the 4th-3rd century BC. The discovery was made during excavations on the St. Marina hill near the Black Sea town of Sozopol, Burgas24 reported. The bronze coins feature Apollo’s…
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ante diem iii idus quintilias ludi Apollinares (day 8)– games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo 431 B.C. (?) — dedication of the Temple of Apollo outside the pomoerium (and associated…
rogue classicism 