January 24, 2012

  • Reviews from BMCR

    2012.01.38:  Kyle Harper, Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425. 2012.01.37:  Dino Piovan, Memoria e oblio della guerra civile: strategie giudiziarie e racconto del passato in Lisia. 2012.01.36:  John Peter Oleson, Humayma Excavation Project, 1: Resources, History, and the Water-supply System. 2012.01.35:  Laura Monrós Gaspar, Robert Reece, Cassandra, the Fortune-teller: Prophets, Gipsies and Victorian…

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  • ante diem xi kalendas februarias Ludi Palatini (day 4) Sementivae or Paganalia (day 1) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been…

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