From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Sep 30 16:50:32 2001 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f8UNoPN98504 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:50:25 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Sep 30 16:50:21 2001 -0700 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f8UNoKQ24992 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 16:50:20 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-144.look.ca [216.154.53.16]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA20750; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:29:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930193725.02142cd0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:38:07 -0400 To: classics@Raven.und.ac.za, classics@u.washington.edu, latinteach@vlists.net From: David Meadows Subject: This Day in Ancient History (Sept. 30) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ this day in ancient history ================================================================ ==pridie kalendas octobres== 420 A.D. -- death of Jerome ==pyanepsion 12== Thesmophoria -- day 2: "The Fast". On the second day of the festival, women would sit on the ground and abstain from solid food. They would also (apparently) hurl abuse at each other and possibly even hit each other with a whip of sorts made from bark. ==september 30, 2001== Nothing (suggestions?) ================================================================ 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! ================================================================ ================================================================ David Meadows Libertas inaestimabilis res est. ================================================================ .