• 1558 – death of Julius Caesar Scaliger

Ten years ago at rogueclassicism, we were reading about an amphitheatre find in Germany, a Roman barge in the Netherlands, and the latest (at the time) research about the eruption of Thera, inter alia. Many of the links from that day are dead, but it does seem to have been a busy day.

• rites in honour of Jupiter Fulgur — the deity who was responsible for daytime lightning was worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius
• rites in honour of Juno Quiritis — a divinity possibly originally from Falerii and brought to Rome by evocatio in 241 B.C. was also worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 3 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 5 — from 19-23 A.D.)
• 15 B.C. — birth of Nero Claudius Drusus (Drusus “Minor”), son of the future emperor Tiberius and Vipsania Agrippina
• 1st century A.D. (?) — martyrdom of Sergius and Bacchus … and Apuleius

Ten years ago at rogueclassicism (not sure if any of the links still work … a few audio files) …

• fast in honour of Ceres — in 191 B.C., consultation of the Sybilline books ordered a fast to be held every five years in honour of the Roman goddess Ceres, who presided over grain and harvesting. By Augustus’ day, the fast was an annual event which curiously coincides fairly closely with the Athenian Thesmophoria.
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 2 — from 19-23 A.D.)
• 1909 — birth of James. B. Pritchard (“Biblical” archaeologist and author of The Ancient Near East, among other things)

Ten years ago we were questioning claims of origins of bobbing for apples and pondering a bowl found near Hadrian’s Wall, inter alia …

• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 1 — from 19-23 A.D.) — a festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays

Meanwhile, a decade ago rogueclassicism had its first post on the Kalash claims of descent from Alexander, inter alia …