Calendars in Antiquity. Empires, States, and Societies

Laodicea, Canons of 413, 416
Libya Cyrenaica 192–3, 264
Lycia 252, 285
lunadates in inscriptions 313–26, 340– 1

Maccabees 235–6, 253– 4
McCluskey, S. 307– 8
Macedonian calendar 154–9, 188, 234–59,
301 – 2
Macrobius 208–9, 225
macro-history 4–5, 168, 204, 223–4, 233,
429 – 30
Malalas 238
Mandaean calendar 182– 4
Melito of Sardis 381
menologies (Mesopotamian) 7
Meritt, B. 32, 36, 39, 47– 9
Mesoamerican calendars 125 n., 164 n., 425 n.
Mesopotamian,seeBabylonian calendar
Meton 50– 2
Mishnah 238, 334, 342 n., 349–51, 378– 9
Moesia 301– 2
Montanists 414, 419, 421– 422
MUL.APIN 88 n., 97–100, 109 n., 198– 201
Müller, J. 39– 42
Mursi (Ethiopia) 30 n., 148 n.

Nabataea 253, 291
Neugebauer, O. 47–8, 60–1, 132, 163
new moon sighting 26–9, 36 n., 45 n., 46, 60–1,
77 – 94, 208, 243, 247, 333–4, 342, 349– 52
New Year 38–9, 130–8, 176–83, 195, 208 n.,
235 – 8
Nicaea, Council of 397–402, 406
Nile, inundation of 129, 132–3, 136 n.
Nilsson, M. 16–17, 125
Novatians 412– 22
nundinae6, 215–6, 319

Olmsted, G. 306– 10
orthodoxy 356–7, 377–9, 385, 409, 417;
see alsocatholicism
Osborne, M. 42– 3

Palmyra 256, 301
pap. Carlsberg (9) 149– 53
pap. Rylands (inv. 666) 152–3, 157– 8
parapegmata 57 – 9, 308, 316–7, 324
Parker, R. 142–3, 149–53, 162
Parthia 185;see alsoBabylonian calendar:
Parthian period
Passover 333, 337–9, 381, 388–9, 392–3, 413,
422 n.
Persian calendars:
Old Persian 170– 4
Zoroastrian 174–81, 184–91, 295

Philo of Alexandria 336, 376

Philocalus, calendar codex of 318–20, 325,

353, 404– 5

Plato 38–9, 67

Pliny 305– 6

Plutarch 33–4, 64–5, 67

Polycrates of Ephesus 382– 6

Pontus 39–40, 248

post-colonial theory 9, 302– 3

Pritchett,W. K. 20, 32, 47–9, 60– 1

Ps-Cyprian 327, 389– 91

Ptolemy,Almagest 239

Quartodecimans 382, 387, 400, 412– 22

Qumran 195–204, 360–75;see alsoJewish

calendars: 364-day calendar

Roman (pre-Julian) calendar 205– 14

Samaritans 346

Samuel, A. 20–1, 69–70, 156, 240

Sasanian Empire, calendars in 180,

185, 295

Scaliger, J. 20, 175 n., 217

Schwartz, E. 338

sectarianism 355–7, 372– 7

Serdica, Council of 337–9, 407– 10

Sidon 251, 285

Sistan 182

Socrates, Church historian 400–1, 417– 9

Sogdiana 179– 81

Sothis 130–2, 134, 138, 147– 9

Sozomen 419

Stratonicus 29– 30

structuralism 222– 3

subculture 299, 326, 329, 341, 352– 3

subversion,seedissidence

supputatio romana 327 – 30, 404–5;see also

Easter

Syrian (Syriac) calendar 256–7, 295

Talmon, S. 372– 3

Talmud, Palestinian and Babylonian 343–4,

350 – 1, 379

Tertullian 386

Tyre 251, 285

Victor of Rome 382– 6

Walker, C. 99

week (7 days) 6, 121 n., 195–6, 199,

318 – 21

Weill, R. 137

Woodhead, A. 49

Zoar 348, 375

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