Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xviii kalendas decembres

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ante diem xviii kalendas decembres

  • equorum probatio — the official cavalry parade of the equites
  • ludi Plebeii (day 11) — the Jupiterfest continues
  • 252 A.D. — martyrdom of Serapion

This Day in Ancient History: idus novembres

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idus novembres

  • rites in honour of Jupiter
  • epulum in honour of Jupiter
  • rites in honour of Feronia
  • rites in honour of Fortuna Primigenia
  • rites in honour of Pietas (?)
  • ludi Plebeii (day 10) — the Jupiterfest goes on and on and on (much of the above must be connected to it all)…
  • 36 B.C. — ovatio of Octavian for “his” victories over Sextus Pompeius in Sicily; the real author of the victory, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, was granted the corona rostrata
  • 354 — birth of Augustine

This Day in Ancient History: novembres

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ante diem iv idus novembres

  • ludi Plebeii (day 7) — the festival in honour of Jupiter continues
  • 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Trypho (maybe … maybe not)
  • 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Tiberius
  • 1870 — birth of Michael Rostovtzeff (author of The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire and the Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World among other things)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v idus novembres

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ante diem v idus novembres

  • ludi Plebeii (day 6) — the Jupiterfest continues
  • 2348 B.C. — the Great Flood began (according to Polyhistor)
  • 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Orestes in Cappadocia