Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History: nonas maias

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James George Frazer (1854-1941)
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nonas maias

  • 431 B.C. — the “Peloponnesian War” began (according to one reckoning)
  • 399 B.C. — death of Socrates (according to one reckoning)
  • 1941 — death of Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas maias

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Theatre of Marcellus, Rome
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ante diem iv nonas maias

11 B.C. — dedication of the Theatre of Marcellus

ca. 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Florian in what would become Austria

ca. 304 A.D. — martydom of Pelagia at Tarsus

1406 — death of Coluccio Salutati (humanist and proto-Classicist)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi nonas maias

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St. Helena
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ante diem vi nonas maias

  • ludi Florae (possible day 7) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over (of course) flowers and their blossoms
  • c. 62 A.D. — martyrdom of James the Lesser in Jerusalem
  • c. 80 A.D. — martyrdom of Philip the Apostle in Heirapolis, Phrygia
  • 115 or 116 A.D. — martyrdom of Pope Alexander I in Rome
  • c. 286 — martyrdom of Maura at Thebias (Thebais?)
  • 326 — traditional date for Helena finding the ‘True Cross’ in Jerusalem …