37 B.C. - events and references (original) (raw)

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ROM << Octavianus attempts to repair the damage to his fleet.
@ Appian:BCiv_5'91-92.

<< Asinius Pollio builds the first public library in Rome, in the Atrium Libertatis.
@ Ovid:Fast_4'623-624, :Tr_3.1'71-72; Plin:HN_7'115, 35'10; Suet:Aug_29'5; { OCD_p; dedicated on 13th April, probably soon after his triumph.}

PER << Phraates kills Orodes and succeeds him as king of Parthia.
* Read Justin's account
@ Plut:Ant_37'1; DioCass_49.23'2-3; Trog:Prol_42; Just_42.4'14-5'2;* { CAH_10_28; OCD_o.}

PAL Herodes defeats the army of Antigonus at Jericho.
@ ~Joseph:BJ_1'328-342, :AJ_14'451-464.

ROM The common people of Rome donate money to M.Oppius, to enable him to stay in office as aedile.
@ Appian:BCiv_4'41; DioCass_48.53'4; { DPRR.}

PAL Herodes marries Mariamme.
@ Joseph:BJ_1'343-344, '432, :AJ_14'465-467; { OCD_h.}

{? May} Herodes and Sosius start to besiege Jerusalem.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Joseph:BJ_1'345-348, '351, :AJ_14'468-475,* 15'261-263; { The length of the siege is reported as either 2 months or 5 months.}

ITA The poets Horatius, Vergilius and Varius accompany Maecenas on a journey to Brundisium.
@ Hor:Sat_1.5'1-104; Liv_fr'51-53;L { OCD_v; Syme_p225.}

Antonius and Octavianus meet at Tarentum, and agree the terms for the renewal of the triumvirate.
* Read Appian's account
@ Tac:Ann_1'10; Plut:Ant_35'2-8; Appian:BCiv_5'93-95;* +DioCass_48.54'1-6, 49.23'1; { OCD_10'25; OCD_a.}

PAL {? July} Herodes and Sosius capture Jerusalem.
* Read Josephus' account
@ [Liv]:Per_128; Seneca:Suas_2'21; Joseph:BJ_1'349-356, :AJ_14'476-488,* 15'264-265; Tac:Hist_5'9; DioCass_49.22'3-6; Oros_6.18'24; { CAH_10'28; OCD_h.}

The start of Herodes' reign as king of Judaea.
@ Joseph:BJ_1'370, '401, :AJ_15'121, '354, 16'136; Hieron:Chron_1983, 1984; Sulpit_2'27.

ROM Messala leaves Antonius and joins Octavianus.
@ Appian:BCiv_4'38; { See Syme_p237.}

SIC Menas changes allegiance again, and joins Sextus Pompeius.
@ Appian:BCiv_5'96; +DioCass_48.54'7; { OCD_m.}

SYR Antigonus is executed, by order of Antonius.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Joseph:BJ_1'357, '665, :AJ_14'489-491,* 15'8-10, 20'246; DioCass_49.22'6; !Hieron:Chron_1978.

PAL Herodes rewards his friends and punishes his enemies.
@ Joseph:BJ_1'358, :AJ_15'1-7, '254, '260.

Hyrcanus returns to Judaea.
@ Joseph:AJ_15'16-21, '181.

ITA Agrippa trains a new fleet in a specially constructed harbour on the Lucrine Lake.
* Read Dio's account
@ Verg:Georg_2'161-164; [Liv]:Per_128; Suet:Aug_16'1; Flor_2.18'5-6; +DioCass_48.49'2-51'5;* +Cassiod:Chr_717; { CAH_10'27; OCD_a.}

EXT Canidius defeats the Iberians and Albanians.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Strab_11'501;(3.5) Plut:Ant_34'10;* DioCass_49.24'1; { CAH_10'31=37/36.}

PAL Herodes appoints Ananel to be high priest of the Jews.
@ Joseph:AJ_15'22-24, 20'247; Euseb:HistEc_1.6'8-9; Hieron:Chron_1983; ChronPasc_468'B, 469'B.

ARM == Phraates kills Antiochus of Commagene.
@ DioCass_49.23'4; { OCD_a?36.}

ROM == Agrippa marries Caecilia Attica, the daughter of Atticus.
@ Nepos:Att_12'1-2; { OCD_agr.}

== C.Furnius and his son are in their prime as orators.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1980.

== Vergilius starts to write the Georgics.
@ [Suet]:Verg_20, 25; { OCD_v; according to the Life, the poem took 7 years to write, and was completed in about 30 B.C.}

== Document: Varro:Rust_, the book on agriculture written by Varro. { Varro says that he wrote the book in his 80th year.}