Caesar\'s Calendar. Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (Sather Classical Lectures)

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CAESAR’S CALENDAR Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History denis feeney University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles Lo ...

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CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Synchronizing Times I: Greece and Rome 7 Synchronizing Times II: We ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS Epilogue Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum Jerome ’s Chroniclefor the years 773 – 757 b.c.e. 30– i ...

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PREFACE xi Time became an obsession for me in more ways than one after I had the honor of being invited to deliver the Sather Le ...

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Introduction 1 Someone writing a book on “time” is well advised not to type the word into a library catalogue search early on in ...

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out in dialogue with Greek schemes of time, I have found myself once more returning to the problem of cross-cultural comparisons ...

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