Paul Cartledge talks about his latest tome: Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities and other things coming soon:
Day: August 1, 2011
This Day in Ancient History: kalendas augustae
kalendas augustae
- rites at the two temples to Victoria on the Palatine
- between 264 and 241 — dedication of the Temple of Spes (Hope) in the Forum Holitorium (and associated rites thereafter)
- 30 B.C. — Octavian captures the city of Alexandria; suicide of Marcus Antonius (source?)
- 12 B.C. — dedication of the ara Romae et Augusti at Lyons
- 10 B.C. — birth of the future emperor Claudius
- 2 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Mars in the Forum of Augustus (and associated rituals thereafter)
- 52 A.D. — dedication of the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus aqueducts
- 126 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Pertinax
- 1457 — death of Lorenzo Valla
- 1840 — death of Karl Otfried Muller
