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

ing. Virgil takes us back to the site of Rome hundreds of years before Romulus, and it is already littered with ruins. Evander, ...

six. Years, Months, and Days II The Grids of the Fasti 167 TIME’S ARROW AND TIME’S CYCLE In this final chapter we continue to ex ...

can obscure important divisions and connections in the original.^2 The calendrical and consular fastiare both called simply fast ...

gested that Augustus’s temporal complex in the Forum included now lost calendri- cal fastito accompany the surviving consular an ...

inscriptions on the walls.^19 These fastidid not, like earlier fasti,simply identify the festivals or give a note for the legal ...

tainly the combined calendrical and consular fastiwork as a calendar to identify days, months, and years, and the regular associ ...

gencies offighting guerrilla warfare in Spain: if you are fighting a war in southern Italy you can have the consuls come into of ...

Augustus’s Consular Years. 173 history of the college: the decemuiriof 451 b.c.e.are listed; at 309 and 301 b.c.e.it is noted th ...

Years, Months, Days II: Grids of the Fasti What we see on the consular fastierected by Augustus are a number of subtle but pro ...

Augustus’s Consular Years. 175 in play on this document: one unit depends for its meaning on the date of founda- tion, the other ...

tween the Capitoline cult [instituted at the foundation of the Republic] and the institution of eponymity.”^49 This “structural ...

and 8 show the numeral LV at the very end, noting that the censors for the year had performed the census for the fifty-fifth tim ...

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Figure9. (left) The Republican Fasti Antiates Maiores for the years 164 – 137 b.c.e. Degrassi 1947, 160. Figure10. (above) The C ...

a later date, is quite different, “marking the suffectiof each year as a group by list- ing them in a single column beneath the ...

Augustus on top and Tiberius underneath, to be followed by the consuls and their suffects. [Palce Figures 1 0 and 11 near here.] ...

Years, Months, Days II: Grids of the Fasti goal of this rhythm of the city’s time as well. With his redefinition and appropria ...

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AUGUSTUS’S CALENDRICAL YEAR If the phenomenal pressure of the Principate ’s new power warped the distinctive patterning of time ...

dational act by an individual (if that is in fact what the dative denotes) are always liable to be swallowed up by the cyclical ...