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

think, torn between their status as a great naval power and their inability to escape from dominant Greek aristocratic ideologie ...

R. F. Thomas 1982a, 148. It is of course by no means straightforwardly the case that the sailing of Catullus’s Argo takes us sim ...

Saturnian contexts of “sadness, anxiety, despair” with “elation, joy and hope” (121). For chronological distortions in particula ...

the sun. By the time Valerius inherits it, the myth of the Argohas become a trope for the impossibility of discovering an origin ...

cultural demarcations in his first words on stage, informing us that he has been in the underworld for four years by saying, “Th ...

only repeat the observation of Versnel (1994, 192) on the “awe-inspiring quantity of studies” on the subject of the return of th ...

As Stephen Hinds points out to me, Ovid is alert to these paradoxes in his account of the ages: the Ovidian iron race start mi ...

Horsfall 1997, 193 – 94, for this context, and others, as possible explanations for the interest of a later poet in the figure o ...

phy for the analogous reason that scholars could not agree on the date of Christ ’s birth (above, p. 8). 17.BM Coins, Rom.Emp.II ...

the burning of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus). For a Timaean date of “1335/4,” see the arguments of Asheri (1983, 55 – 60; 19 ...

On the various Christian millenary calculations, see Blackburn and Holford- Strevens 1999, 787 – 88. Prophecies of Rome ’s doo ...

The translation of Harris 1971, 34 n. 2, for the difficult phrase ob auaritiam prope nouissimi octaui saeculi. Adams 2003, 182. ...

to follow up Griffin’s acute pinpointing of differences between poets and genres in this regard: no calendar dates of any kind i ...

1900 became common” (682); the new system, then, “saves” three days every 400 years, which is enough to keep us on track until t ...

Hence the necessity for constant intercalation, and the inevitability of chaos if intercalation was omitted. Laurence and Smit ...

Michels 1967, 180 – 81; Fraschetti 1990, 39 n. 59. Suerbaum 1980, 327 – 29, 332 – 34; my presentation here is merely a précis o ...

Syme 1939, 524; the dates are 19 August 43 b.c.e.and 19 August 14 c.e. 1 Sextilis: the month later called Augustus. See Lowr ...

312 b.c.e., when the state took it over (Mueller 2002 gives details). Virgil carefully highlights the name Potitius in his descr ...

For a recent account of Aeneas’s tour with Evander, with bibliography, see Klodt 2001, 11 – 17. Edwards 1996, 12 – 14, 31 – 32, ...

of the inheritance, see Trompf 1979, 186 – 87. Virgil and his readers will have been as aware of this template as Kipling and hi ...