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

ary history to the experience of reading the Liber Annalisof his friend Atticus. It is by no means the case that his great dialo ...

two centuries before the date of Cicero’s last dialogues.^99 This novel perspective is not one that Cicero finds it automaticall ...

language in praise of the book certainly stresses its utility and seems to do so in terms of its physical appearance. Atticus as ...

true credit for the columnar arrangement belongs to the Christian bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, whose Chroniclewe may briefly con ...

Synchronizing Times I: Greece and Rome them offevery four years. The big underlined numbers in the left column, marked offever ...

Christian Synchronistic Chronographers. 31 sees the same four columns: (i) the kings of Alexandria, the Macedonian inheritors of ...

Synchronizing Times I: Greece and Rome (see figure 4). In 70 c.e.the Jewish column disappears with Titus’s capture of Jerusale ...

Aulus Gellius’s Synchronistic Chapter. 33 but who could have had no conception that his world would be turned upside down by the ...

Synchronizing Times I: Greece and Rome Punic War (“218 – 201 b.c.e.”), but he carries on for a hundred years past this declare ...

Aulus Gellius’s Synchronistic Chapter. 35 from Cicero, who seems to have come to this recognition, never quite appre- hended by ...

Synchronizing Times I: Greece and Rome maiorum.When Gellius, shortly afterwards (42), finally arrives at the beginning of Roma ...

might have stopped soon after, with the first literary figures of Rome, but it is sig- nificant that he carries on until he reac ...

wings.^119 The mechanics of synchronism bring out this theme in a particularly effective way, because we are kept waiting for a ...

similar contrast, between, on the one hand, the mighty Peloponnesian War on Greek soil, immortalized by Thucydides (bellum... in ...

Persian empire. “What if ?” history is relatively rare in the ancient world; the most famous example of it is precisely Livy’s d ...

illustration of Gellius’s Athenian focalization that the battle of Chaeronea itself is described as the battle where Philip conq ...

ing devices.^129 The process of making the systems mesh together was one that the Romans and Greeks could never internalize as n ...

two. Synchronizing Times II West and East, Sicily and the Orient 43 WHEN IS A SYNCHRONISM JUST A COINCIDENCE? In chapter 23 of t ...

and no joint purpose in the fact that the Greeks in Sicily happened to be defeating Carthaginians at the very same time that the ...

fact the barbarians to the west and the east had been sharing intelligence and were working together to attack the Greek world f ...