Daily Archives: January 24th, 2013

Blogosphere ~ Harvard Crimson on the Jesus’ Wife Fragment

Mark Goodacre: Harvard Crimson on the Jesus’ Wife Fragment.

Presenting Anthropology – Weeks 3&4 (Readings)Birth of Hadrian

About.com Ancient / Classical History: Birth of Hadrian.

Blogosphere ~ Placenta Perfecta

Pass the Garum: Placenta Perfecta.

Blogosphere ~ Let’s Live

Laudator Temporis Acti: Let’s Live.

Podcast: IOT Romulus and Remus

Some Classics big guns in this one … Mary Beard, Tim Cornell, and Peter Wiseman

Blogosphere ~ Ancient Roman Pork with Apples

The Silk Road Gourmet: Ancient Roman Pork with Apples.

Blogosphere ~ Martial Minoans? War as social process, practice and event in Bronze Age Crete

History of the Ancient World: Martial Minoans? War as social process, practice and event in Bronze Age Crete.

Blogosphere ~ Competing Theories of Spermatogenesis in Classical Greek Science

Futurus Essay: Competing Theories of Spermatogenesis in Classical Greek Science.

Blogosphere ~ Romance, autobiography and history in Metamorphoses 13

Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Romance, autobiography and history in Metamorphoses 13.

Blogosphere ~ The urban context of the Serapeum at Ostia

History of the Ancient World: The urban context of the Serapeum at Ostia.

Blogosphere ~ The Root of All Evil

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Root of All Evil.

Blogosphere ~ Roman Religious Cake – Placenta

Pass the Garum: Roman Religious Cake – Placenta.

Blogosphere ~ Perfect Participles as Present Tense

Latin for Addicts: Perfect Participles as Present Tense.

Blogosphere ~ “Something Big” at Amphipolis

PhDiva: “Something Big” at Amphipolis.

Blogosphere ~ Review of Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume II: Caesarea and the Middle Coast, 1121-2160

Rollston Epigraphy: Review of Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volume II: Caesarea and the Middle Coast, 1121-2160.

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas februarias

ante diem ix 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 coincident with Paganalia, which also obviously has some rural aspect to it. It appears to have been a two-day festival with an interval of seven days between (corrections on this welcome … my sources seem muddled on this one)
  • 41 A.D. — murder of Gaius (Caligula); Claudius proclaimed emperor by the praetorian guard
  • 76 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Hadrian
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