quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est
ante diem v idus maias
Lemuria (day 2) — a private and public appeasement of the dead; the Roman paterfamilias would rise at midnight to conduct a ritual involving beans and bronze
rites in honour of Mania — a Roman divinity who was considered the goddess of the dead; she was also the mother of the Lares
14 A.D. — Augustus’ last official census comes to an end
330 — Constantine renames Byzantium and makes it his capital
1988 — death of E.T. Salmon (Samnium and the Samnites)
Here’s a very interesting (to me) lot from the upcoming June auction of antiquities at Christies this June. As often seems to be the case, the poor lass is legless, headless, and armless, but what’s really interesting (again, to me) is the evidence on her shoulders that her hair was down. I can’t recall ever seeing a sculptural depiction of Venus with her hair down … in theory, that would mean this isn’t a ‘bathing’ Venus but she’s in some other mode.
UPDATE (just a short time later) — thanks to Caroline Lawrence (who twittered an example from Rhodes, which does seem to be in a ‘bathing’ pose) and Francesca Tronchin (e.g.) for pointing me to sculptural representations of Venus/Aphrodite Anadyomene (‘rising from the sea’ … a la Botticelli). There don’t seem to be an awful lot of them
pridie nonas maias
c. 69 A.D. — martyrdom of Evodius of Antioch
ante diem iii nonas maias
ca 300 A.D. — martyrdom of Jovinian
ante diem iv nonas maias
11 B.C. — dedication of the Theatre of Marcellus
ca. 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Florian in what would become Austria
ca. 304 A.D. — martydom of Pelagia at Tarsus
1406 — death of Coluccio Salutati (humanist and proto-Classicist)
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