Roman Times: Sexual innuendo and character assassination in the ancient world.

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• Parentalia possibly comes to an end with the festival of Feralia, during which sheep were sacrificed to the dead; the additional rites mentioned by Ovid (Fasti 2.565 ff) apparently in connection with the Feralia probably have nothing to do specifically with the festival.
• 4 A.D. — death of hoped-for-successor-to-Augustus Gaius Caesar (either February 21 or 22) in Limyra

Popular Archaeology:  Archaeologists Excavate Magnificent Monumental City of the Decapolis | Popular Archaeology – exploring the past.\

… this is the place where those Roman soldier footprints were found five years ago. I also mentioned in Explorator (but I don’t think I mentioned here) the following pair of videos about the dig (the background music is kind of annoying):

Adrian Murdoch continues the series with the guy who was arguably the last ‘effective’ emperor:

• Valentinian: Emperors of Rome

History of the Ancient World: The Two Orients for Greek Writers.

[from the Kyoto Journal of Ancient History]