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

moment of closure, but we can see from Pompeius Trogus that the job kept hav- ing to be revisited, and he makes it clear that th ...

also to have vast political consequences, it was necessary that the distance between the parallel groups be large, and that the ...

three. Transitions from Myth into History I The Foundations of the City 68 THE MYTH/HISTORY EVENT HORIZON We move now to a diffe ...

ern investigators alike. The foundation of the city generated for the ancients an important cluster of questions about what coun ...

worth retaining for investigation. The mass of inherited material in the historio- graphical tradition could be sliced up in var ...

Simonides,” in which the distant events of Troy are a template for the heroism of the contemporary Greeks in their battle agains ...

or else from only two generations earlier, if Boardman is right to identify them as the dead of Marathon.^14 STRATIFYING TIME: H ...

Of the expeditions which we know of, this was much the greatest, so that nei- ther Darius’ against the Scythians seems an expedi ...

tinction between the value of the stories about Io and her like and the value of what he is going to tell us about Croesus, the ...

where Herodotus says god intervenes.^29 This, however, is a category mistake, con- fusing “myth” with “religion.” Herodotus can ...

the categories he needs in order to be able to formulate what iswrong with Minos: is it our ignorance or is it Minos’s status as ...

science and philosophy could be copied over verbatim for history. He highlights the importance to the new scientific discourses ...

origins of humans, “then that is where we would start from” (et si origo mundi in hominum notitiam uenisset, inde exordium sumer ...

things that happened” (poeticis magis decora fabulis quam incorruptis rerum gestarum monumentis, Pref.6). Here he is setting up ...

taught us in 1066 and All Thatthat history “is what you can remember,” and that is certainly true; but history is also what you ...

Syncellus for saying that events were uncertain and undatable before the birth of Abraham.^69 Scholars often represent the kind ...

pened in it are contained in true histories. For the first epoch of time, whether it had a beginning or whether it always existe ...

made the fall of Troy a crucial watershed within his “mythical” period, “as the last of a series of events staggered at 400-year ...

Troy and Thebes because there were none to record (5.324 – 29). What happened before those events our age cannot see, unless by ...

case of Eratosthenes we would then have a classic and overarching example of what Mazzarino has called the “diastematic” system ...