This Day in Ancient History

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  • 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, the senate dedicated a Temple of Fortuna Muliebris (and there were associated rites thereafter)

This Day in Ancient History

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  • ca 72 A.D. — Martyrdom of Thomas the Apostle
  • 273 A.D. — Martyrdom of Irenaeus
  • 324 A.D. — Victory of Constantine over Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople

This Day in Ancient History

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  • rites in honour of Juno
  • rites in honour of Felicitas
  • 69 A.D. — Vespasian hailed as emperor in Alexandria
  • 70 A.D. — Titus attacks the walls of Jerusalem
  • 1614 — death of Isaac Casaubon

This Day in Ancient History

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Outside of the wedding anniversary of the rogueclassicist, the closest thing to anything ‘Classical’ for this date is the commemoration of the Protomartyrs of Rome (given a date of 64 A.D.) who were the Christians scapegoated by Nero for the big fire …