ancient rome

February 19, 2017
On 19 February 356 Emperor Constantius II issued a decree closing all the pagan temples in the Roman Empire.

February 12, 2017
The combined rites practiced by the cult of the Hirpi Sorani (“wolves of Soranus”) in the pagan peninsular countryside and those to honor Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome who were nursed by a wolf, partly explain the name of the Lupercalia, a festival celebrated each February.

January 17, 2017
The dawn of a new dynasty: Octavian , future Roman Emperor Augustus, divorced his wife, Scribonia , on 17 January 38 BCE.

January 14, 2017
The British Museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759.

December 7, 2016
Ancient Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero was assassinated on 7 December 43 BCE.

December 3, 2016
Ancient Rome celebrated the rites of Bona Dea, the “Good Goddess,” on 3 December.

November 27, 2016
On 27 November 111, Antinous (the man who became first the companion of the Emperor Hadrian) was Born.

October 30, 2016
Julia, the only child of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) was born on 30 October in 39 BCE.

October 29, 2016
On 29 October, 312, Constantine the Great entered Rome after his victory at the Milvian Bridge on the previous day.

October 21, 2016
Roman vedutista (view painter) Giovanni Paolo Panini died on 21 October 1765.