Category: TDIAH

This Day in Ancient History: kalendae maiae

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kalendae maiae

Frontispiece and title page from volume II of ...
Frontispiece and title page from volume II of a 1716 edition of the Works of Virgil translated by John Dryden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1700 — death of John Dryden (poet and translator of many of the versions of ancient poetry which abound on the internet)

This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas maias

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pridie kalendas maias

Lucanus, De bello civili ed. Pulmann (Plantin ...
Lucanus, De bello civili ed. Pulmann (Plantin 1592), p. 004-005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

ludi Florae (day 4)

65 A.D. — death of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus … a.k.a. Lucan (by one reckoning)

304 A.D. — beginning of Diocletianic persecutions under Galerius

311 A.D. — Edict of Toleration of Galerius

1936 — death of A.E. Housman

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v kalendas maias

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ante diem v kalendas maias

ludi Florales … a.k.a. Floralia (day 1) — a festival originally ordered in response to an interpretation of the Sybilline books in 238 B.C., it fell into desuetude only to be revived in 173 B.C.; it was a general festival of drinking and other merriment in honour of Flora, who presided over (of course) flowers and their blossoms (Chloris is also mentioned … I’m still trying to figure that one out).

4977 B.C. — birth of the universe, according to the calculations of Johannes Kepler

399 B.C. — death of Socrates (by one reckoning)

"Floralia", Öl auf Leinwand, 104 x 1...
"Floralia", Öl auf Leinwand, 104 x 162 cm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1753 — birth of Edward Gibbon

1870 — Heinrich Schliemann ‘discovers’ Troy

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii kalendas maias

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ante diem vii kalendas maias

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii kalendas maias

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ante diem viii kalendas maias

  • Vinalia (day 2?)
  • 1184 B.C. — “conquest and destruction of Troy” (according to one reckoning)
  • 339 B.C. — Timoleon defeats the Carthaginians at the Crimesus (according to one reckoning)
  • 27 B.C. — the future emperor Tiberius dons his toga virilis