Month: February 2010

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas martias

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ante diem xiii kalendas martias

  • Parentalia (Day 5) — the period for appeasing the dead continued
  • Quirinalia — festival honouring the namesake of the Quirinal hill, the Sabine divinity Quirinus, who was later identified with Romulus. Little else is known about the festival.
  • 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Donatus and 80+ others near Venice
  • 1776 — Edward Gibbon publishes the first volume of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Seen in Passing: Hadrian Flick?

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The conclusion of a piece on of Deliverance, Zardoz, Point Blank (et alia) fame:

As the new decade kicks off, Boorman seems to have his hands full. He has been working on an animated version of The Wizard of Oz for several years. A film based on the Emperor Hadrian is still under development. And he seems confident that he will soon get to shoot a script he wrote with Neil Jordan a quarter of a century ago. Perhaps it’s a bit early for a lifetime achievement award.

via Deliverance’s duelling banjos were a budget cut | The Irish Times.

Citanda: Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti?

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I may have to look into this:

World History Blog: Did Alexander the Great Fight the Yeti?.

… but Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo seems to have nailed it …