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

tings beneath the earth and their risings” (lapsaque sub terras ortaque signa). These “signs” look at first like a natural syste ...

Virgil’s Georgicswere published some fifteen years after the Julian reform, more than enough time, if we remember the precedent ...

Heyworth has well observed the way that the named dates in the last two lines of the poem, the Ides and the Kalends, drive home ...

markers, including especially the days of the fastithat Virgil (and Horace) had so carefully avoided: Roman calendar and festiva ...

continued in use.^189 Numerous Eastern calendars did adapt themselves to the Julian calendar, sometimes doing no more than takin ...

had a localized dimension. The festivals that mark each month were in many cases cloned and reproduced in other places, but it i ...

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Epilogue 213 The reach of the Romans’ time schemes was very great. They extended to heaven to chart the constellations, in the k ...

capture the recurrent cyclical rhythms of hourly, daily, monthly, seasonal, and annual time, all of them squeezing on the indivi ...

Horace ’s generation, and the ones immediately before and after it, are the ones to which I have returned repeatedly in this boo ...

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Notes 217 INTRODUCTION Macey 1991, xviii. Not to mention the roughly 180,000 articles that Macey figures on for the same period ...

categories built into the human mind. Thinking, rather, is a plural, not a unitary phe- nomenon; there are different modes of th ...

tion era in Emendatio Temporum;and 676 – 77, for its appearance as an era in Isagogici Chronologiae Canones,which formed the arm ...

was local than we now remember. Music, for example, had localized standards. Any European town might have a different pitch for ...

his time, of identifying significant moments by reference to the well-known figures involved.” Mazzarino 1966 is an excellent i ...

(8.51.1) as “the one ‘absolute date ’ ” in Herodotus, but that is not the function of the mention of Calliades’ archonship in th ...

marked this lesson: see Meister 1989 – 90, 63, for the way Timaeus uses natural (i.e., Panhellenically comprehensible) calendric ...

lish a chronology per se, and Grafton (1995) reacts strongly against traditional schol- arship’s reverence for the supposedly mo ...

Rome, including law (Horsfall 1994, 62, with reference to Delz 1966). The question is rather to find what preliterary mechanism ...