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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii idus maias
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv idus maias
ante diem iv idus maias
- 19 B.C. (?) — dedication of the Temple of Mars Ultor on the Capitoline
- 2 B.C. — opening of the Forum of Augustus
- 113 A.D. — opening of the restored Temple of Venus Genetrix
- 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Dionysius and Pancras at Rome
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v idus maias
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ante diem v idus maias
- Lemuria (day 2) — a private and public appeasement of the dead; the Roman paterfamilias would rise at midnight to conduct a ritual involving beans and bronze
- rites in honour of Mania — a Roman divinity who was considered the goddess of the dead; she was also the mother of the Lares
- 14 A.D. — Augustus’ last official census comes to an end
- 330 — Constantine renames Byzantium and makes it his capital
- 1988 — death of E.T. Salmon (Samnium and the Samnites)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi idus maias
ante diem vi idus maias
- 214 (?) A.D. — birth of the future emperor Claudius II Gothicus
- 232 A.D. — martyrdom of Felix and Palmatius
- 238 A.D. — murder of Maximinus Thrax (by one reckoning)
- 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Epimachus at Alexandria
- 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Alphius, Philadelphus, Cyrinus, and Benedicta at Leontini (?)
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