TDIAH
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ante diem iv idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 7) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo 100 B.C. (?) — birth of G. Julius Caesar 67 A.D. — martyrdom of…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem vii idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 4) 597 B.C. — a suggested date for Thales‘ eclipse (or so it was thought in several 19th century (and earlier) sources 118 A.D. — Hadrian finally arrives in Rome as emperor
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Image by Martin Beek via Flickr ante diem viii idus iulias ludi Apollinares (day 3) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo rites in honour of Vitula, possibly honouring a…
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pridie nonas julias ludi Apollinares (day 1) — games instituted in 212 B.C. after consulting the Sybilline books during a particularly bad stretch in the Punic Wars; four years later they became an annual festival in honour of Apollo late fifth century B.C.? — in the wake of the aborted attack on Rome by Coriolanus,…
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[a couple of years ago I was experimenting with this format] ante diem iii nonas quinctilias Poplifugia — a festival the origins of which were forgotten by the time folks began writing about things; it possibly commemorates the flight of the people from Gauls in the fourth century, but that seems a rather strange thing…
