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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii kalendas sextilias

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ante diem vii kalendas sextilias

¶  ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 7)

¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 9)

¶ 110 A.D. — martyrdom of Hyacinthus

¶ 1893 — birth of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)

… and I posted this a few years ago and like it, so here’s some fun from Petronius, Satyricon 53:

Et plane interpellavit saltationis libidinem actuarius, qui tanquam Vrbis acta recitavit: “VII kalendas Sextiles: in praedio Cumano, quod est Trimalchionis, nati sunt pueri XXX, puellae XL; sublata in horreum ex area tritici milia modium quingenta; boves domiti quingenti. Eodem die: Mithridates servus in crucem actus est, quia Gai nostri genio male dixerat. Eodem die: in arcam relatum est, quod collocari non potuit, sestertium centies. Eodem die: incendium factum est in hortis Pompeianis, ortum ex aedibus Nastae vilici.

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii kalendas sextilias

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ante diem viii kalendas sextilias

¶  Furrinalia — a festival in honour of an obscure Roman deity named Furrina, who appears to have been associated with a grove and/or spring

¶ ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 6)

¶ 44 A.D. — marytrdom of James the Greater

¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 8)

¶ 306 A.D. — death of the emperor Constantius I; dies imperii of Constantine I

¶ 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea closes

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas sextilias

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ante diem ix kalendas sextilias

¶ ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 5)

¶ 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome continues (day 7)

¶ 69 A.D. — sacking of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (?)

¶ 133 A.D. — the last holdout of the Bar Kochba Revolt — Betar — fell to the Romans (?)

¶ 1895 — Birth of Robert Graves (author of I, Claudius, among others)

¶ 1978 — death of Dame Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas sextilias

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ante diem x kalendas sextilias

  • Neptunalia — an obscure festival (obscure in the sense that we really don’t know what went on) in honour of Neptune
  • ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 4)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 6)
  • 79 A.D. — martyrdom of Apollinaris
  • 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Phocas the Gardener

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xi kalendas sextilias

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ante diem xi kalendas sextilias

  • 367 B.C. (?)– dedication of a Temple of Concord (and associated rites thereafter)
  • 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of Rome (day 5)