Classical Antiquity
| Date | Name | City, State | Country | Description | Sources | Hynek Scale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 BC | flame-like "pithoi" from the sky | Phrygia | Turkey | According to Plutarch, a Roman army commanded by Lucullus was about to begin a battle with Mithridates VI of Pontus when "all on a sudden, the sky burst asunder, and a huge, flame-like body was seen to fall between the two armies." Plutarch reports the shape of the object as like a wine-jar (pithōi). The apparently silvery object was reported by both armies, wh | 1 | |
| ca. 150 | 100 foot "beast" accompanied by a "maiden" | Via Campana | Italy | On a sunny day near the Via Campana, a road connecting Rome and Capua, a single witness, probably Hermas the brother of Pope Pius I, saw "a 'beast' like a piece of pottery (ceramos) about 100 feet in size, multicolored on top and shooting out fiery rays, landed in a dust cloud, accompanied by a “maiden” clad in white. Vision 4.1-3. in The Shepherd of Hermas. | 3 | |
| 196 | angel hair | Rome | Italy | Historian Cassius Dio described "A fine rain resembling silver descended from a clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus." He used some of the material to plate some of his bronze coins, but by the fourth day afterwards the silvery coating was gone. | 2 |
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Famous quotes containing the words classical and/or antiquity:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn’t begrudge his son’s talent.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)