From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Sep 2 06:44:08 2001 Received: from mxu104.u.washington.edu (mxu104.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f82Di6014236 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 06:44:06 -0700 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by mxu104.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with SMTP id f82Di6q13634 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 06:44:06 -0700 Received: FROM deimos.idirect.com BY mxu4.u.washington.edu ; Sun Sep 02 06:44:05 2001 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-04-138.look.ca [216.154.53.202]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10861; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 09:43:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010902094219.03fa1810@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2001 09:43:09 -0400 To: classics@Raven.und.ac.za, classics@u.washington.edu, latinteach@vlists.net 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 ================================================================ ==ante diem iv nonas septembres== 31 B.C. -- Octavian defeats Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra at Actium ==boedromion 13== preliminaries to the Eleusinian Mysteries 490 B.C. -- Pheidippides runs to Sparta for help against Persians at Marathon** ==september 2, 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 ================================================================ 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! ================================================================ .