I am not the Rogue Classicist who has a MySpace page (although I am of similar age and musical taste!) … nor am I the author of the Rogue Classicist blog (who might be the same guy) … I am on Twitter (as rogueclassicist) and Facebook (as David Meadows … one of seven or eight; shouldn’t be difficult to figure out which one). FWIW, I’ve been using the epithet (originally as Rogue Classicist, then, when I got tired of pressing shift keys and spacebars, as rogueclassicist) since before 1999 …
Day: March 16, 2009
This Day in Ancient History
ante diem xvii kalendas apriles
- Festival of Mars continues (day 16)
- 37 A.D. — death of the emperor Tiberius at Misenum
- 284 A.D. — martyrdom of Hilarius and companions
- 1900 — Arthur Evans purchases the land around Knossos