From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Aug 12 02:32:42 2001 Received: from mxu102.u.washington.edu (mxu102.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f7C9We090034 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:32:40 -0700 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by mxu102.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with SMTP id f7C9WdT10853 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 02:32:39 -0700 Received: FROM phobos.idirect.com BY mxu2.u.washington.edu ; Sun Aug 12 02:32:39 2001 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-04-157.look.ca [216.154.53.221]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA81987; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:36:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010812053143.00abe690@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:32:12 -0400 To: classics@Raven.und.ac.za, classics@u.washington.edu, angel_devil_sweetie2@hotmail.com From: David Meadows Subject: This Day in Ancient History Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ this day in ancient history ================================================================ ==pridie idus sextiles== rites in honour of Hercules Invictus in the Circus maximus (more at the website) rites in honour of Venus Victrix, Honos, Virtus, and Felicitas in Pompey's theatre (more at the website) ==metageitnion 12== Nothing (suggestions?) ==august 12, 2001== Nothing (suggestions?) ================================================================ Note: dates which are marked with a double asterisk (**) are those which I have found on various websites but have been unable to confirm in a scholarly source. They are, most likely, wrong or 'traditional' and are included primarily for edutainment value. ================================================================ Useful Addresses ================================================================ To send comments and/or suggestions to the editor: mailto:dmeadows@idirect.com If you'd like to follow up on some of the events listed above (and/or find out how the dates were established), check out the web version at: http://www.atrium-media.com/thisday.html A preliminary archive of the email version (almost the whole year) is available at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThisDay/messages To subscribe to This Day in Ancient History, send a blank email message to: mailto:ThisDay-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to: mailto:ThisDay-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com ================================================================ This Day in Ancient History is Copyright (c) 2001 David Meadows. Feel free to distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These listings are not to be posted to a website; instead,please provide a link to the web version and/or preliminary archive mentioned above. Thanks! ================================================================ .