Tony Keen: Royal Holloway Classics Day.

Classics Daily: ‘Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye’.

ante diem xiv kalendas decembres

• Mercatus — in the wake of the lengthy ludi Plebeii, the Romans needed a few days to restock their cupboards
• ca. 64 A.D. — upside down crucifixion of Peter
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Hesychius of Antioch
• 1718 — premiere of Voltaire’s Oedipe in Paris