History of the Ancient World: Comparing Strategies of the Second Punic War: Rome’s Strategic Victory Over the Tactical/Operational Genius, Hannibal Barca.

[Hannibal from a military college perspective]

Roman Times: Identifying Ancient Art – A game of smoke and mirrors?.

[Mary Harrsch adds some examples to Mary Beards ‘identifying emperors’ talk]

Blogging Pompeii: Protect Hadrian’s Villa.

[we’ll be blogging about this ourselves in the next day or two]

Past Horizons: Using burial sites to gauge the effect of Roman conquest on Iron Age Britons.

idus martias

• festival of Mars continues (day 15)
• festival of Jupiter
• festival/rites in honour of Anna Perenna (Happy New Year!)
• 44 B.C. — murder of Gaius Julius Caesar
• ca. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Longinus (the soldier who is said to have pierced Jesus’ side with a spear) in Cappadocia