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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xii kalendas decembres

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ante diem xii kalendas decembres

  • Mercatus — time to restock the cupboards after the Jupiterfest!
  • 63 A.D. — shipwreck of St. Paul (by one reckoning)
  • 270 (?) — birth of the future emperor Maximinus Daia
  • 284 A.D. — elevation of Diocletian to the rank of Caesar

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas decembres

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment
ante diem xiii kalendas decembres

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiv kalendas decembres

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ante diem xiv kalendas decembres

  • Mercatus — in the wake of the lengthy ludi Plebeii, the Romans needed a few days to restock their cupboards
  • ca. 64 A.D. — upside down crucifixion of Peter
  • 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Hesychius of Antioch
  • 1718 — premiere of Voltaire’s Oedipe in Paris

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xvii kalendas decembres

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ante diem xvii kalendas decembres

  • ludi Plebeii (day 12) — the Jupiterfest goes on and on and on …
  • 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Gurias
  • 1907 — birth of Nicholas G.L. Hammond (The Genius of Alexander the Great, among others)

[for the record, I don’t believe today is the day for the festival of Feronia, as attested on several other sites (not sure which came first, but Wikipedia is among them … Feronia’s festival was on the thirteenth; I suspect this is one of those ‘Ides’ confusion things]