Caligula
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As folks in the UK know, Mary Beard was recently on the telly doing some Caligula revisionism … see Adrian Murdoch’s roundup of the reviews (Reviews of Mary Beard’s Caligula … he also mentioned a while back that another Caligula doc which he played a role in is now up at Youtube: Caligula: 1400 Days…
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The Express has a piece (for reasons unknown … but it’s written by Matthew Dennison, whose 12 Caesars is getting reviewed all over the place) about the excesses of assorted emperors. Here’s the incipit: IN AD 37 the new Roman Emperor Gaius, better known by the nickname Caligula, built a bridge across the sea. It…
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Strange one from the Independent: It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights – Kermit the Frog is in appearing in a tale of dictatorship, violence and sexual depravity. Audiences will see the children’s character, along with hero He-Man and clown Ronald McDonald, in a much darker way later this month…
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ante diem iv idus junias 17 B.C. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 6) 38 A.D. — death of Drusilla, the much-beloved sister of the emperor Gaius (Caligula) 86 A.D.. — ludi Capitolini (day 5) 120 A.D. — martyrdom of Gaetulius and companions at Tivoli 204 A.D. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 7)
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Image via Wikipedia kalendas junias rites in honour of Carna, a nymph who was somehow associated with the health of bodily organs Saecular Games (day 1) — celebrating Rome’s thousand-year anniversary 388 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Mars (and associated rites thereafter) 344 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Juno Moneta (and associated rites…
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