TDIAH
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ante diem xvii kalendas maias ludi Cereri continue (day 4)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. Fordicidia — an obvious fertility ritual in which a pregnant cow would be sacrificed to the earth goddess Tellus 421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a.…
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ante diem xviii kalendas maias ludi Cereri continue (day 3) — games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. 69 A.D. — first battle at Bedriacum; the forces of emperor wannabe Vitellius eventually would defeat the forces of emperor wannabe Otho 73 A.D. — mass suicide at Masada (?) 195 A.D. — Julia Domna, wife…
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ante diem v idus apriles ludi Megalesia continue (day 6) 193 A.D. — Septimius Severus given the rank of Augustus
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ante diem vi idus apriles ludi Megalensia continue (day 5) 217 A.D. — murder of the emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla) 1898 — Birth of Maurice Bowra (The Greek Experience) 1979 — death of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)
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ante diem vii idus apriles ludi Megalesia (day 4) 30 A.D. — crucifixion of Jesus (one reckoning according to the astronomical estimates) 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Calliopus at Pompeiopolis 310 A.D. — martyrdom of Peleusius at Alexandria
