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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi kalendas sextilias

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ante diem vi kalendas sextilias

  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day eight)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day ten)
  • ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers
  • ca 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Panteleon

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii kalendas sextilias

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ante diem vii kalendas sextilias

  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 7)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 9)
  • 110 A.D. — martyrdom of Hyacinthus
  • 1893 — birth of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas sextilias

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ante diem x kalendas sextilias

  • Neptunalia — an obscure festival (obscure in the sense that we really don’t know what went on) in honour of Neptune
  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 4)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 6)
  • 79 A.D. — martyrdom of Apollinaris
  • 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Phocas the Gardener
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xii kalendas sextilias

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ante diem xii kalendas sextilias

  • Lucaria (day 2) — the followup to a similar festival on the 19th commemorating the Sack of Rome by the Gauls; this day marked Rome’s subsquent victory
  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 2) — games instituted by/adjusted by Octavian to honour his adoptive father shortly after the latter’s death (possibly moving Caesar’s own ludi Veneris Genetricis)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 4)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas sextilias

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ante diem xiii kalendas sextilias

  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 1)
  • 1262 B.C. — based on the ‘Canicular Cycle’ (a.k.a. the Sothic cycle) of the Egyptians, this day is suggested for the foundation of the Pythian Games and the embarkation of Jason and the Argonauts (!)
  • 356 B.C. — birth of Alexander the Great (one suggested date)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 3)
  • 1304 — birth of Petrarch