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

toriography between mythic and historic time is not like the blue line in ice hockey, static and highly visible, but more like t ...

before the foundation date for Rome that every schoolboy used to know, 753 — or, if you prefer, 751 or 748, but at any rate, som ...

ers. Romulus is on a fascinating borderland, right on the fringe of what is suscep- tible to historical treatment. As Pelling ob ...

seem to assume is that on one side you have all the Greeks telling their foundation stories from the Trojan era, while on the ot ...

If you went to Rome in 300 b.c.e., in other words, they had some way of telling you how long ago the kings were expelled and the ...

of Romulus and Remus for a good long time before the brothers Ogulnii, in the year 295 b.c.e., put a statue of the wolf at the b ...

be focusing on the exiguous human remains at Rome from around 1000 as “cor- roboration.”^132 It is not only ancient scholars who ...

the most attractive hypothesis is that he had Carthaginian informants who gave him this date for the foundation of their city, a ...

almost within touching distance of Western Greek historical time, Timaeus by no means jettisoned the Trojan connection simply to ...

for these stories, and how he discriminated between these earlier myths and his later material, is no longer recoverable. Did he ...

Olympiad,” “748/7 b.c.e.”^153 Fabius presents what eventually became the canoni- cal way of reconciling the old Trojan-era versi ...

“748/7,” locates Rome only a dozen years before the first Sicilian colonies, and, tantalizingly, right at the very beginning of ...

Whatever the force of such speculation about a precise synchronism with a par- ticular Greek colony, the crucial point remains t ...

diately, or even soon. Some Greeks continued to tell the old story of the mythic era foundation;^176 it may appear initially mor ...

beginning of Rome, since the Trojan War, according to Cato’s way of doing things, is an event in universal, or Roman, history, n ...

tion of Sparta.^192 What we see in the Ennius passage, in other words, is that the city was virtually destroyed and came within ...

between the first founding of the city, in 753, and the refounding that faces Livy and his contemporaries 365 years after Camill ...

crucial from the Greek tradition — Troy and the first Olympiad — and recasts them as transitions into a new, Roman, phase of his ...

refoundation and rebirth. The history of the city keeps getting restarted at such crucial transition moments, when repetitive pa ...

1 and 2, the end of monarchy and the start of the republic.... Both the start of the republic and the origoin 390 in turn look b ...