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

Figure13. The Fasti Praenestini for 6 – 15 January. Degrassi 1963, 112. ...

Augustus’s Calendrical Year. 187 Some twenty years after Horace ’s fourth book ofOdes,at the beginning of his calendar poem, Ovi ...

saepe tibi pater est, saepe legendus auus, quaeque ferunt illi, pictos signantia fastos, tu quoque cum Druso praemia fratre fere ...

andria (27 March), Thapsus (6 April), Ilerda and Zela (2 August), Pharsalus (9 August) — not to mention Caesar’s birthday (12 Ju ...

THE YEARS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY The emperors’ encroaching presence also warps the distinctive Roman form of historiography, that of ...

rations is too rigid. Nonetheless, Ginsburg’s fundamental insights into Tacitus’s procedures remain valid, as Rich likewise stre ...

istic norm by creatively transgressing it.^111 Tacitus has just been narrating foreign affairs, in Armenia. Ostensibly in order ...

The consuls in this passage are no longer the ones who “open up” (recludant) shrines and altars, but prisons instead (4.70.3). E ...

“11 July,” while the eclipse of 21 June 168 b.c.e.was observed at Pydna in north- eastern Greece on the third day before the Non ...

that corresponds to a modern sense of utility. The calendars of Athens are a valu- able caution against such assumptions.^122 At ...

The Athenian calendars are not in place to measure time, but to regulate mean- ingful civil, religious, and interstate activity ...

themselves, and since the Lyre rises on the fifth day of January according to Caesar, Cicero was making his epochal observation ...

old format of the parapegma to take account of various other cycles not covered by Caesar’s calendar.^141 By Caesar’s time there ...

crimen)to “the names of the days as given by the city” (ciuilia uocabula dierum, 6.12).^144 He will first speak of the days “tha ...

processes are fixed and others movable is not something that engages his interest; certainly, it is not an instinctive reflex to ...

cal phenomena: when the calendar has such an unprecedentedly tight bond with the movement of the sun, then there is no longer an ...

THE CIVIL AND THE NATURAL The kind of distinction Pliny is working with is one that matters profoundly to many Romans who write ...

Caesar took charge of this along with many other things” (sed tamen errabant etiam tunc tempora, donec/Caesaris in multis haec q ...

The acculturated impact of the calendar is so deep that it can make us feel that its demarcations are part of nature, but Ovid f ...

Mars himself is able to indulge complacently in a description of spring at the “right” moment, when he speaks to the poet at the ...