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Julius Caesar's Acta Diurna
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Julius Caesar's Acta Diurna
"Day's Events" 64 B.C.
What is Acta Diurna?
- A daily "newspaper" (the earliest recorded newspaper)
- Contained official town notices
- Usually carved into stone or metal
- Taken down and archived (although none of the copies still exist) after a few days of being posted
Where?
- Posted in various populated places around Rome
What kind of notices did Acta Diurna contain?
- Originally it only posted results and outcomes of legal proceedings and trials
- Then other notices were added (important births, deaths, marriages, contests, weather, etc.)
- Some notices (military, etc.) were originally kept secret until Julius Caesar made them public in 59 B.C.
Who?
- It was for the public
- Prominent and wealthy people could pay scribes to go and copy what the notices said. Then the scribes would bring the copied notices back to the person who was paying them.
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64 B.C.