Category: TDIAH
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xviii kalendas septembres
ante diem xviii kalendas septembres
- 29 B.C. — triple triumph of Octavian (day 3)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv idus sextiles
ante diem iv idus sextiles
- 30 B.C. — Suicide of Cleopatra
- 7 A.D. — dedication of the ara Cereris Matris et Opis Augustae and associated rites thereafter
- 70 A.D. — Roman forces breach the walls of Jerusalem
- 1911 — birth of A.N. Sherwin-White (The Roman Citizenship)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v idus sextiles
ante diem v idus sextiles
- rites in honour of Sol Indiges on the Quirinal Hill
- 480 B.C. — Spartan forces under Leonidas fight a suicidal delaying action against Persian forces at Thermopylae (by one reckoning)
- 48 B.C. — The forces of Julius Caesar defeat Pompeius Magnus at Pharsalus
- 117 A.D. — official announcement that Trajan had adopted Hadrian as his successor (hmmmm …)
- 1804 — death of Robert Potter (translator of Aeschylus and critic of Dr. Johnson)
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii nonas sextilis
ante diem iii nonas sextilis
- supplicia canum — a ritual which was the ‘fallout’ from the story of the geese saving Rome from the Gauls; as punishment to the ‘watchdogs’ who didn’t bark, every year the Romans would crucify a dog
- 8 A.D. — victory of the future emperor Tiberius at Illyricum
- 178 A.D. — the emperor Marcus Aurelius and Commodus depart on their second campaign against the Germans
- 1761 — death of Johann Matthias Gesner
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