This Day in Ancient History
ante diem vi idus apriles

ludi Megalensia continue (day 5)

217 A.D. -- murder of the emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla)

1898 -- Birth of Maurice Bowra (The Greek Experience)

1979 -- death of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)
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