The folks at Mental Floss tell us Diogenes was the “Henny Youngman of philosophers” …
Day: July 21, 2010
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xii kalendas sextilias
ante diem xii kalendas sextilias
- Lucaria (day 2) — the followup to a similar festival on the 19th commemorating the Sack of Rome by the Gauls; this day marked Rome’s subsquent victory
- ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 2) — games instituted by/adjusted by Octavian to honour his adoptive father shortly after the latter’s death (possibly moving Caesar’s own ludi Veneris Genetricis)
- 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 4)