April 2011
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ante diem vi kalendas maias ca. 89 A.D. — martyrdom of Cletus 121 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Marcus Aurelius
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Adrian Murdoch continues the series with someone I always considered rather *in*commodious: #17 Commodus: Emperors of Rome
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ante diem vii kalendas maias Robigalia — an ancient agricultural festival designed to appease the numen Robigo/Robigus who caused mildew 404 B.C. — Athens surrenders to Sparta, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end (by one reckoning) 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Mark the Evangelist 1940 — death of Wilhelm Dorpfeld (excavator of Tiryns)
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From the Kalamazoo Gazette … another classicist-novelist I was unaware of: A group of admirers sat in the back of Paul Maier’s classroom Thursday, soaking up the Western Michigan University professor of ancient history’s lesson on the last part of the Roman empire and marveling at his knowledge of the ancient world. They weren’t his…
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Interesting paper by Adrienne Mayor: Giants in Ancient Warfare (Adrienne Mayor) | Academia.edu.
rogue classicism 