pridie nonas novembres
- ludi Plebei (day 1) — a major festival in honour of Jupiter
- 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Agricola
Year: 2009
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas novembres
ante diem iv nonas novembres
- 1656 B.C. — traditional date for the start of the Great Flood (according to one calculation)
- 285 B.C. — Ptolemy II Philadelphus ascends the throne of Egypt as co-ruler with Ptolemy I(by one reckoning)
- 188 A.D. — martyrdom of Eustachius/Placidus (in a bronze bull!)
- 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Justus of Trieste
- 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Victorinus of Pettau
- 315 A.D. — martyrdom of Carterius and his companions (soldiers under Licinius)
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ED: Palaeography Summer School
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Third International Summer School in Greek Palaeography, August 16-22, Oxford
The Third Lincoln College International Summer School in Greek Palaeography will take place in August 2010. Further information can be found on www-gpss.linc.ox.ac.uk.
The programme consists of more than 25 hours of teaching in the form of lectures, seminars, reading classes, special subject classes and tutorials. Participants will have the opportunity to see original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and have a tutorial on manuscripts relevant to their research.
The Summer School addresses advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as early post-docs working in subject areas such as classics (Greek language and literature), medieval and early modern Greek philolFroogy, patristics, theology, art history and archaeology, and late antique, medieval, and Byzantine literary and cultural history. Application deadline is the 23rd December 2009.
For queries contact Maria Konstantinidou (maria.konstantinidou AT classics.ox.ac.uk).
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