On this day in modern history, in 1927, historian J. B. Bury died in Rome. Going back in time, this, the Kalends of June, was the day on which the temple of Juno Moneta was dedicated in 344 B.C. The dedicated fulfilled a promise made by L. Furius Camillus during the war against the Auruncii, which was after the legendary warning by Juno's sacred geese in 390 B.C. during the Gallic siege.
The Rogue Classicist says this was the first day of the secular games. For those interested in learning about the secular games from the ancient sources, Lily Ross Taylor says there are two types of sources, performance related documents -- acta of Augustus, Claudius or Domitian, and the Severans, and statements from Zosimus and Censorinus; and literary descriptions -- Horace's secular hymn, and a secular ode in the writing of Phlegon and Zosimus. There are also coins from the reign of Domitian about secular games in 88. See Lily Ross Taylor's "New Light on the History of the Secular Games"; The American Journal of Philology (1934).
Related:
- On This Day in Ancient History Index
- Juno Moneta
- The Augustan Age
- The Severan Emperors
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