Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History: pridie nonas septembres

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pridie nonas septembres

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv nonas septembres

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ante diem iv nonas septembres

  • 31 B.C. — Octavian defeats Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra at Actium
  • 490 B.C. — Pheidippides runs to Sparta for help against Persians at Marathon (one traditional date)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii idus iulias

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ante diem viii idus iulias

  • ludi Apollinares (day 3) — 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
  • rites in honour of Vitula, possibly honouring a divinity who supposedly presided over victory celebrations … or perhaps she had something to do with heifers
  • 1851 — birth of Arthur Evans (excavator of Knossos)

This Day in Ancient History: pridie nonas julias

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pridie nonas julias

  • 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)