ante diem vi kalendas decembres

• 311 — Martyrdom of Peter of Alexandria
• 1689 — death of Marquard Gude (Classical archaeologist … more of an epigraphist)
• 1719 — death of John Hudson (Classicist)
• 1905 — birth of Robert Hamilton (archaeologist … mostly Near Eastern, among other things)
• 1922 — Howard Carter sees “wonderful things”

ante diem vii kalendas decembres

• 2348 B.C. — the Great Flood begins (according to someone’s reckoning!)
• 571 B.C. — Servius Tullius celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Mercurius
• 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Moses of Rome
• 1901 — birth of Jean Humbert (Hellenist)
• 1908 — death of John Henry Wright (Classicist)

ante diem viii kalendas decembres

• 29/30 A.D. — partial solar eclipse in the eastern Mediterranean which is sometimes associated with the crucifixion
• 62 A.D. — death of the satirist Aulus Persius Flaccus (source?)
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Felicissimus and Firmina
• 1785 — birth of August Boeckh (one of those old time German philologists who live on in scholarly footnotes)
• 1914 — b

  irth of Bernard Knox (Classicist extraordinaire)

• 1977 — the discovery of a tomb believed to be that of Philip II of Macedon is announced
• 1998 — death of John Chadwick

ante diem ix kalendas decembres

• 534 B.C. — Thespis wins ‘best actor’ at the first City Dionysia (? I’m inferring from strange claims in Wikipedia here … it’s a slow TDIAH day)
• ca. 101 — martyrdom (?) of Clement I
• 1852 — birth of Charles Graux (French Classicist … see Melanges Graux for a biography)
• 1927 — birth of Guy Davenport (translator of Sappho and assorted others)