Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas Augustas

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 ante diem x kalendas Augustas

  • 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

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xi kalendas Augustas

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ante diem xi kalendas Augustas

  • 367 B.C. (?)– dedication of a Temple of Concord (and associated rites  thereafter)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 5)

 

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xii kalendas sextilias

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ante diem xii kalendas sextilias

  • Lucaria (day 2) — second day of a festival held in a grove somewhere between the Via Salaria and the Tiber (few details are known about this one)
  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 2)– games vowed in conjunction with a temple to Venus Genetrix by Julius Caesar at Pharsalus
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 4)
  • 2nd century A.D. — martyrdom of Praxides
  • 204 A.D. — martyrdom of Zoticus
  • 273 A.D. — martyrdom of Julia  and Justus of Troyes

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas sextilias

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ante diem xv kalendas sextilias

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xvi kalendas sextilias

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ante diem xvi kalendas sextilias

  • Mercatus
  • rites in honour of Victory on the Capitoline
  • ?? B.C. — dedication of a Temple to Honor and Virtue (and associated rites thereafter)
  • 180 — some sort of persecution under Saturninus (details?)