Citanda: Ancient Olympians Talk

None of this gold, silver, bronze stuff for the ancients …

Citanda: Replica of Orpheus Mosaic Coming to Auction

Just what you need in your dining room:

Very interesting publicity project for an upcoming performance … includes a little video:

ante diem v kalendas martias

ante diem vi kalendas martias

Regifugium — a festival which didn’t really happen on “February 24” but actually six days before the kalends of March, which was usually during a period of intercalation. Roman writers suggested this festival was a celebration of the expulsion of the Tarquins, although modern scholars have their doubts. Whatever the case, on this day the Rex Sacrorum would offer some sort of sacrifice in the Comitium and then run away as fast as he could …
259 A.D. — martyrdom of Montanus and several companions at Carthage
303 A.D. — edict of Galerius officially promoting the persecution of Christians (?)
304 A.D. — martyrdom of Sergius in Cappadocia
1463 — birth of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (usually described as a “Neoplatonist”)
1999 — death of David Daube (author of Civil Disobedience in Antiquity, among numerous other works)