David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist
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IN THE NEWS … 4th-century fragment of the Odyssey discovered Rare 2,000-Year-Old Celtic Silver Hoard Found Beneath a Former Sports Field | Arkeonews Roman ruins found beneath Newport school sparking huge excavation project | Wales Online Researchers Have Analyzed the Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network of Roads. Turns Out, Not All of Them Led to Rome…
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ludi Romani (day 14) 31 A.D. — execution of Sejanus (still not sure about that one) 53 A.D. (?) — birth of the future emperor Trajan 96 A.D. — murder of the emperor Domitian; dies imperii of the emperor Nerva 1709 — Birth of Samuel Johnson
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IN THE NEWS … A 328-Foot Underground Aqueduct Discovered in the Sabine Hills Shows Rome Wasn’t the First to Master Water Engineering Rare face-down Roman burial discovered at ancient Croatian town | Croatia Week Mosaic-Floored Banquet Halls Unearthed at Mieza’s Royal Gymnasium Linked to Aristotle and Alexander | Arkeonews Scientists unearth complete remains of Egyptian…
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ludi Romani (day 13) 14 A.D. — the dead emperor Augustus is declared to be Divus Augustus 134 A.D./C.E. — ‘martyrdom’ of Rabbi Akiva
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IN THE NEWS … Parthenon myth is debunked after 2,000 years: Mathematician says the Ancient Greeks did NOT curve the temple’s lines to give the illusion they were straight | Daily Mail Online Scrap of 1700-year-old copy of The Odyssey washes up in Utrecht – DutchNews.nl 1,800-year-old Roman tomb at Chersonesus linked to an elite…
