Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History:

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

ante diem vi idus decembres

  • Rites in honour of Tiberinus and Gaia — not a lot is known about these rites; Tiberinus had a temple on the Tiber island and presided over the Tiber (of course); Gaia seems to have originally given the Campus Martius (a.k.a. Campus Tiberinus) to the Roman people.
  • 65 B.C. — birth of the poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

HTML Visual

Upload/Insert Add an ImageAdd VideoAdd AudioAdd MediaAdd Poll
Word count: 0

Excerpt

Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts.

Send Trackbacks


(Separate multiple URLs with spaces)

Trackbacks are a way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them. If you link other WordPress sites they’ll be notified automatically using pingbacks, no other action necessary.

Discussion


Slug

Author

rogueclassicist

Likes and Shares

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii idus decembres

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment
Marcus Tullius Cicero, by Bertel Thorvaldsen a...
Image via Wikipedia

ante diem vii idus decembres

  • 424 B.C. — accession of Darius II (according to one reckoning)
  • 424 B.C. — battle of Amphipolis (according to one reckoning)
  • 424 B.C. — battle of Delium (according to one reckoning)
  • 43 B.C. — death of Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) as he half-heartedly fled the proscription of Marcus Antonius et al.
  • 1985 — death of Robert Graves (I Claudius, among others)
Enhanced by Zemanta

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii nonas decembres

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment
Julius Caesar, from the bust in the British Mu...
Image via Wikipedia
ante diem iii nonas decembres

  • Possible date for rites in honour of the bona dea: essentially private rituals for Roman women only held in the house of a consul or praetor and attended by the Vestal Virgins and assorted upper class types. The actual date does not appear to have been ‘fixed’ and, of course, this ritual was ‘crashed’ by P. Clodius (dressed as a woman) in 62 B.C. with all sorts of nasty spinoffs, not least of which was the Julius Caesar’s divorce from his wife Pompeia.
  • 313 A.D. — death of the retired emperor Diocletian
Enhanced by Zemanta