January 2012
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History of the Ancient World: Fetus Magic and Sorcery Fears in Roman Egypt.
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SCREEN PLAYS: Greek plays: the National Theatre’s The Oresteia Channel 4, 1983.
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History of the Ancient World: Road network of Crete in Tabula Peutingeriana.
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Zenobia: Empress of the East: Four Passive Imperial Goddesses.
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ante diem vii kalendas februarias Sementivae or Paganalia (day ?) — Sementivae was a festival of sowing which was actually a moveable feast (although I’m not sure of the moveability criteria; I’m guessing that the first day falls between January 24 and 26). By Ovid’s time it appears to have been coincident with Paganalia, which…