This Day in Ancient History
ante diem vii kalendas maias

Robigalia -- an ancient agricultural festival designed to appease the numen Robigo/Robigus who caused mildew

404 B.C. -- Athens surrenders to Sparta, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end (by one reckoning)

68 A.D. -- martyrdom of Mark the Evangelist

1940 -- death of William Dorpfeld (excavator of Tiryns)
Posted by david meadows on Apr-25-05 at 5:28 AM
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