Month: May 2013

History of the Ancient World | Mothers, Murderers And Mistresses: Empresses Of Ancient Rome coming to the BBC

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History of the Ancient World | Mothers, Murderers And Mistresses: Empresses Of Ancient Rome coming to the BBC

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xi kalendas junias

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ante diem xi kalendas junias

  • 415 B.C. — The “mutilation of the herms” occurs, which would briefly delay the launching of the Sicilian Expedition (by one reckoning)
  • 334 B.C. — Battle of the Granicus, one of Alexander’s major victories against the Persians (by one reckoning)
  • 337 A.D. — death of Constantine I