Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas junias

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Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), British classical ...
Gilbert Murray (1866-1957), British classical scholar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
ante diem xiii kalendas junias

325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea opens (maybe)

1912 — birth of Moses Finley (Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, among others)

1957 — death of Gilbert Murray ((History of Ancient Greek Literature, among numerous other things)

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiv kalendas junias

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ante diem xiv kalendas junias
Portrait of James Boswell (1740-1795) at twent...
Portrait of James Boswell (1740-1795) at twenty-five (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

c. 160 A.D. — martyrdom of Pudentiana

175 A.D. — Commodus departs for Germany

307 A.D. — martyrdom of Cyriaca and companions at Nicomedia

1795 — death of James Boswell, author of Life of Dr. Johnson,

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xvi kalendas junias

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ante diem xvi kalendas junias

Antikythera mechanism
Antikythera mechanism (Photo credit: Stefan Geens)

303 A.D. — martyrdom of Heradius

1510 — death of Botticelli (Birth of Venus, among other Classical subjects)

1902 — discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism