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

Veyne 1988, 76 – 78; Alcock 1997, 33 – 34; S. Hornblower 2001, 136 – 37. 65.FGrH239 §§ 1, 3, 12, 21; cf. Dowden 1992, 51 – 52. ...

Feeney 1991, 130 – 31, on Virg. Aen.1.12 – 28. On Aeneas as the last of the demigods, a theme glimpsed in the Homeric Hymn to A ...

hellenic games were much more recent: the Pythian and Isthmian games were dated back to “582 b.c.e.,” and the Nemean to “573 b.c ...

I call this an “extraordinary shift,” but it attracts oddly little attention, apart from Asheri 1991 – 92, 69. Cornell 1995, 12 ...

Timpe (1988, 275 – 81) mounts a very powerful case for Fabius’s use of Diocles for the structure of the foundation story, arguin ...

F 13), as does J. Hornblower (1981, 248). If Hieronymus did discuss the origins of Rome, it is likely that he gave a Trojan orig ...

see above, pp. 24 – 25. Even Servius could remark that it was not possible to find a con- sensus about the true origin of the ci ...

dence for a Carthaginian connection to mythic time, I find it more attractive to hypoth- esize that Timaeus made a distinction b ...

The year 748 is two 33-year generations down from 814. Curti (2002) offers a fascinating argument about the coincidence betwee ...

as she demonstrates how the scholarly debates in the early twentieth century replayed these ancient chauvinist maneuvers, arguin ...

vital interplay between “myth” and “history” in the Roman epic tradition, especially in Naevius and Virgil, see A. Barchiesi 198 ...

On the significance of the number, Hubaux 1958, 38, 60 – 88; Mazzarino 1966, 2.2:44 with n. 496; Pinsent 1988, 3. At 5.40.1 Liv ...

is the keystone of his entire chronological edifice. The sack’s epochal nature in the early Roman historical tradition is eviden ...

In the earlier historiographic tradition (Fabius Pictor and Cato), the establish- ment of the Decemvirate in 458 b.c.e.will hav ...

Excellent account in Munz 1977, 139 – 41, beginning with “the conception of Ferdinand Tönnies that the development of human gr ...

contribution, together with the conventional interpretation of the myth as charting a progressive decline. He makes some importa ...

archus as an influence, although Cicero has taken the austere line even farther. On the high opinion of Dicaearchus among Cicero ...

“race” to “age” represents a Roman politicizing and historicizing of an originally more anthropological framework; cf. Momiglian ...

represents Tomis as an Iron Age locale, on a sea first entered by Jason (Pont.3.1.1): for Ovid ’s Tomis as an Iron Age locale, s ...

D. Kidd 1997, 222, commenting on Aratus Phaen.110, one of the few Greek texts to speak explicitly of sailing as an evil that di ...