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

out, Syracuse was easily the most powerful single Greek state of the day. His offer, however, is dismissed by the Spartans and A ...

For the year 338 b.c.e., for example, they engineered a significant synchronism between the battle of Chaeronea in mainlaind Gre ...

the western Greek world look like more of an equal partner in Hellas, and significant synchronisms between Sicily and Greece pro ...

of their ancestors, the impious barbarians of the East.^30 Half of the work from Pindar’s First Pythianremains to be done. In Ti ...

continuator, beginning his narrative with the Romans’ first crossing of the sea from Italy (264 b.c.e.), following straight on f ...

kai; toi'" peripavtoi" pro;" ta;" paradovxou" ejpiceirhvsei", Óotan h] Qersivtou levgein ejgkwvmion h] Phnelovph" provqwntai yov ...

way to another.”^44 Its pretensions to this status continue to be overlooked in mod- ern scholarship,^45 but there are traces in ...

point to Timaeus as the father of Roman historiography^51 — not just in the sense that he was the first to bring Rome “within th ...

stressing their sameness. Eratosthenes, toward the end of the third century, asserted that Rome and Carthage were twinned in spa ...

North African Expeditionary Force (38.21 – 22). Polybius’s actual text is lost at this point, and for a reconstruction we depend ...

Greeks, at the very end of his very long life, as he saw the Romans moving out of the peninsula and crossing over into his homel ...

Carthaginian. In Sicily, the temple of Zeus Olympius at Acragas had a famous Gigantomachy on its eastern pediment, and it has lo ...

sisis also clear, for the focus on Athens was a vital part of the paradigm that the Romans had taken over from the Western Greek ...

Aristotle ’s objection that the events of history are not “directed to achieve any identical purpose.”^89 Such synchronistic vie ...

Synchronizing Times II: West and East through southern Gaul; a small island of territory in North Africa; and, in the east, Ma ...

If anyone on the other side wishes to catalogue in similar fashion the achieve- ments of Caesar, who appeared greater than he, h ...

Furius and Aurelius, who will accompany Catullus, whether he will penetrate to the Indians at the outside limit, where the beach ...

of the Roman world are being redefined, and he works into this apprehension the idea that his own world is having its limits red ...

Synchronizing Times II: West and East Christians, for they could claim that the Greeks were mere Johnny-come-latelies in compa ...

Incorporating the World. 65 as if the age of Cicero, the age of the late Republic, anticipates the intellectual envi- ronment of ...