David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist
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Floralia (day 6) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over (of course) flowers and their blossoms
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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Rare Tyrian purple reveals elite Roman infant burials in York https://phys.org/news/2026-04-rare-tyrian-purple-reveals-elite.html Poop-encrusted chamber pots from the Roman Empire reveal oldest known human cases of Crypto parasite | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/poop-encrusted-chamber-pots-from-the-roman-empire-reveal-oldest-known-human-cases-of-crypto-parasite This Man Fled Pompeii as Mount Vesuvius Erupted. Archaeologists Found Him 2,000 Years Later, Holding a Bowl to Protect His Head and…
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1700 — death of John Dryden (poet and translator of many of the versions of ancient poetry which abound on the internet)
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=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Rare imperial purple cloth found in Roman infant burials in York – News and events, University of York https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2026/research/rare-purple-cloth/ For centuries these dazzling Roman bowls were misread—until chemical traces exposed an unexpected maker https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-centuries-dazzling-roman-bowls-misread.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter Archaeologists find marble statue of Athena in Turkey | The Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-894583 Greece Advances Restoration of Ancient…
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Floralia (day 4) 65 A.D. — death of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus … a.k.a. Lucan (by one reckoning) 304 A.D. — beginning of Diocletianic persecutions under Galerius 311 A.D. — Edict of Toleration of Galerius 1936 — death of A.E. Housman
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