Repititiationes ~ 11/23/15

http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668732713352994816
http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668733306364674048

http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668733793885401088

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This Day in Ancient History ~ ante diem ix kalendas decembres

Programme from the original run of Thespis by ...
Programme from the original run of Thespis by Gilbert and Sullivan (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

ante diem ix kalendas decembres

  • 534 B.C. — Thespis wins ‘best actor’ at the first City Dionysia (? I’m inferring from strange claims in Wikipedia here … it’s a slow TDIAH day)
  • ca. 101 — martyrdom (?) of Clement I
  • 1852 — birth of Charles Graux (French Classicist … see Melanges Graux for a biography)
  • 1927 — birth of Guy Davenport (translator of Sappho and assorted others)

Repititiationes ~ 11/22/15

http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668448664864563202

http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668449196513562625

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This Day in Ancient History ~ ante diem x kalendas decembres

  • c. 70 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and Apphia
  • c. 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Cecilia
  • 1817  — according to Wikipedia, Frédéric Cailliaud discovered the Roman emerald mines at Sikait on this date (but I can’t track down their sources)
  • 1891 — birth of Victor Ehrenberg (Solon to Socrates, among others)
  • 1909 — birth of Allan H. Coxon (Parmenides Scholar)

Repititiationes ~ 11/21/15 (part two)

http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668182663547764737

http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668205360163987456
http://twitter.com/rogueclassicist/status/668205418787774464