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Julian 2003 Oct 13— FONTINALIA I — ANTE DIEM III IDVS OCTOBRIS MMDCCLVI A.V.C
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      The emperor Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus), 63, died this day in DCCCVII A.V.C. (54 AD), having been poisoned (with mushrooms, it seems) by his 4th wife and niece (he had changed Roman law to make the marriage licit), Agrippina the Younger, 39, (he had divorced the first three wives). He wrote a history of Rome beginning with the principate of Augustus, 20 books of Etruscan and 8 books of Carthaginian history, all in Greek; an autobiography; and a historical treatise on the Roman alphabet with suggestions for orthographical reform, he also wrote on dice playing. All his works are lost. Claudius paid the Praetorian Guard to proclaim him emperor on ante diem VIII Kalendas Februarii DCCXCIV A.V.C. (25 January 41), the day after the assassination of emperor Gaius. Agrippina pressured Claudius to disown his own son Britannicus and to adopt her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (later the emperor Nero). After Claudius's death, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the politician and satirist, who had been exiled by Claudius at his accession but had been recalled at Agrippina's urging to educate Nero, derided the dead emperor and his apotheosis (duly decreed by the Senate) in the satire Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii ("The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius"). Agrippina was murdered on orders of her son Nero in DCCCXII A.V.C. (59 AD). Seneca was sentenced to death by suicide, for his part in a conspiracy, in DCCCXVIII A.V.C. (65 AD)
     The Fontinalia is a festival in honor of Fontus, the god of fountains, springs, and wells. Fontus was the presumed son of Janus by the nyph Juturna. Sacrificing, feasting, games, and drinking plenty of wine mixed with spring water would have been the theme of the day. On this day garlands of flowers were spread in decoration, especially around wells and springs.
     In Greece this was the third and final day of the Athenian Thesmophoria. The Thesmophoria was a fertility festival. They would carry sacred baskets containing phallic symbols in a ceremonial procession to the Acropolis. The priestesses would offer themselves freely as public prostitutes as a means of ensuring the fertility of the wheat fields..
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