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

Myth into History I: Foundations of the City this more clear than in the extended description of yet another destruction of th ...

This is a highly self-referential moment, for Tacitus’s whole description of the fire is modeled extensively on Virgil’s descrip ...

four. Transitions from Myth into History II Ages of Gold and Iron 108 ACROSS THE DIVIDE The last chapter closed with Nero singin ...

terms — this is when humans enter upon patterns of life that are still current, and begin living a knowable and familiar life, c ...

the impact of Lévi-Strauss’s vision of “hot” and “cold” societies, according to which modern “hot” societies are fully immersed ...

13,000 years ago when the Iron Age of agriculture, animal domestication, and organized sedentary life started to take root in th ...

were much worse and not like the Golden Race in nature or mind (127 – 39); after them comes a Bronze Race, unlike the Silver, te ...

was to explain the present state of humanity, for the Augustans its function is to put the emperor at the centre of the scheme o ...

(1935) we have been familiar with the complex dialectic between primitivist and progressive views of human history. The overtly ...

ophrenia on the subject of progress and decline is radical. A Roman sense of accel- erating departure from a revered and simpler ...

sions, as a life lacking all the defining characteristics of normal human life. In Weltalter, goldene Zeit und sinnverwandte Vor ...

against the man who first “invented the hours” (primus qui horas repperit), the one who first set up a sundial (solarium);when h ...

beginning of history takes the gods away from mating with mortals, the gods are stuck in a timeless zone, one that throws into r ...

ing did not intrigue the Greeks very much.^53 Yet already in Ennius’s adaptation of the prologue to Euripides’ Medeathere is a h ...

Myth into History II: Ages of Gold and Iron ning or an end; as Fitzgerald well puts it, “the voyage of the Argo is both the mo ...

The Corrupting Sea. 121 based self-sufficient Italian days before their expansion outside the peninsula, and their collision wit ...

safer enterprises than the more perilous alternatives of sailing and of “grandiose heroic poetry.”^78 Horace ’s scope keeps broa ...

CATULLUS’S CHRONOLOGICAL ANOMIE In his third OdeHorace does not name the first man to sail, the primusof line 12, or give the na ...

lizes chronologies in such a systematic way that its chronological inconsistencies have become notorious.^92 There are two main ...

time” (utinam ne tempore primo/Cnosia Cecropiae tetigissent litora puppes,171; dizzy- ingly, his language here exploits the dict ...