This Day in Ancient History ~ ante diem vii idus octobres

ante diem vii idus octobres

Repititiationes ~ 10/08/15

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This Day in Ancient History ~ ante diem viii idus octobres

ante diem viii idus octobres

  • 319/318 B.C. ~ Wikipedia’s
    English: Pyrrhus of Epirus. Museo Archeologico...
    Pyrrhus of Epirus. Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples) (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    date for the birth of Pyrrhus of Epirus (source?)

  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 4 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 6 — from 19-23 A.D.)

Repititiationes ~ 10/7/15

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This Day in Ancient History ~

nonas octobres

  • rites in honour of Jupiter Fulgur — the deity who was responsible for daytime lightning was worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius
  • rites in honour of Juno Quiritis — a divinity possibly originally from Falerii and brought to Rome by evocatio
    Portrait of Drusus Minor. Marble, Roman artwor...
    Portrait of Drusus Minor. Marble, Roman artwork, ca. 21 AD. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    in 241 B.C. was also worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius

  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 3 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 5 — from 19-23 A.D.)
  • 15 B.C. — birth of Nero Claudius Drusus (Drusus “Minor”), son of the future emperor Tiberius and Vipsania Agrippina
  • 1st century A.D. (?) — martyrdom of Sergius and Bacchus … and Apuleius