Museo Parc Alesia
I could have sworn I mentioned this museum when it opened, but I guess not (it’s probably lurking way in the bottom of my email) … anyhoo, here’s a nice AFP video report:
Utter B.S.: Veni, Vidi, Vici Trademarked
Okay, this is officially ridiculous … first it was the Volvo nonsense, then Lamborghini with its Deimos nonsense, and now some town in Turkey has managed to trademark Julius Caesar’s phrase? From Hurriyet: The municipality of Zile in the northern province of Tokat has announced the acquisition of the Turkish patent license for the Roman [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas sextilias
Image via Wikipedia ante diem iv nonas sextilias 338 B.C. — Death of Archidamus III (King of Sparta) 216 B.C. — Hannibal inflicts a massive defeat on Roman forces at Cannae (possible date) 86 B.C. — Sulla defeats Mithridates at Chaeronea (possible date) 49 B.C. — Julius Caesar defeats Afranius and Petreius (legates of Pompey) [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v kalendas sextilias
ante diem v kalendas sextilias ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 9) ca 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Nazarius and Celsus
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii idus quinctilias
ante diem iii idus quinctilias 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 [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv idus quinctilias
ante diem iv idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 7) — 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 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar 67 A.D. — martyrdom of [...]
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas quinctilias
ante diem ix kalendas quinctilias 47 B.C. — birth of Caesarion, a.k.a Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor (son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra) 79 A.D. — death of the emperor Vespasian 1986 — death of Moses Finley
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii idus junias
ante diem vii idus junias the ‘inner sanctum’ of the Temple of Vesta was opened to the (female) public ludi piscatorii (?) — a private festival celebrated by fishermen 17 B.C.. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 3) 20 A.D. — Nero Julius Caesar, son of the emperor-in-waiting Germanicus, dons his toga virilis; a congiarium is given [...]
Julius Caesar Flick in the Works?
The initial couple of ‘graphs from a movie-industry blog (and there are no further details after these few words): Gianni Nunnari and Mark Canton are teaming up with Exclusive Media Group on a potential franchise based on the life of Julius Caesar. The partners are eyeing a trilogy of films adapted from Conn Iggulden’s four-book [...]
