- Image via Wikipedia
ante diem ix kalendas septembres
- rites in honour of Luna at the Graecostasis
- mundus patet — the mundus was a ritual pit which had a sort of vaulted cover on it. Three times a year the Romans removed this cover (August 24, Oct. 5 and November eighth) at which time the gates of the underworld were considered to be opened and the manes (spirits of the dead) were free to walk the streets of Rome.
- 72 A.D. — martyrdom of Batholomew at Albanopolis
- 79 A.D. — Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae
- 410 A.D. — Alaric sacks Rome
- 1971 — death of Carl Blegen (excavator of Pylos)
- 1997 — death of Philip Vellacott
rogueclassicism 