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

Years, Months, Days I: Eras and Anniversaries saeculumof nature to the moment of city foundation, so that the natural is indis ...

The Saeculum. 147 He promptly died, confirming the Etruscan definition of saeculum:“he died because he was the last member of hi ...

mere contingent digits. Readers who lived through the hysteria of Y2K will be able to remind themselves that, on occasion, mere ...

city.^79 Observers could not resist dwelling on the apparent irony that he was mur- dered either the day before his birthday or ...

THE MECHANICS OF ANNIVERSARY CALCULATION Before exploring the theme further, it is worth pausing to reflect on what exactly an a ...

Republican dates before the Caesarian reforms, as in the example of Cicero’s birth- day just quoted, and to Julian dates for eve ...

Years, Months, Days I: Eras and Anniversaries Julian reform, and their solutions are highly revealing of their attitudes to th ...

Calibrating across the Julian Reform. 153 day before the Ides,” ante diem tertium Idus.^100 Our “fourteenth,” the day before the ...

leave the festivals on the same “day,” the same number of days after the Ides, even though this meant changing their “date,” the ...

first half of the month, between the Kalends and the Ides, there was no problem, since there were no extra days inserted except ...

the calendar for “nineteen days before the Kalends of February” as a dies uitiosus, “a defective day,” unfit for public business ...

each year ought to be 365 days after the preceding one, or occasionally 366, just as we do;^118 but for a Roman under the Republ ...

b.c.e., noindividual older than the Julian reform could ever be in a position to share Ovid ’s birth-anniversary, in the post-Ju ...

Turning, then, to the competing obituary notices of Augustus that come early in the first book of Tacitus’s Annals,I discovered ...

time or culture, or the asserted “likeness” of any two elements in simile. Recent studies of Ovid ’s Fastihave concentrated prod ...

THE WORMHOLES OF VIRGIL’S FASTI When Aeneas rows up the Tiber and comes to the site of Rome, he sees the locals sacrificing to H ...

erance that Augustus will perform in historical — contemporary — time.^142 All this is made possible by the calendar’s generatio ...

their historical (and aetiological) clock; he and his rites mark the starting-point of Arcadian history.”^148 What happens when ...

Years, Months, Days I: Eras and Anniversaries down again. The future of Rome may not be locked in a perpetual Golden Age but m ...

Revolutions of Time. 165 unheard-of animals in unheard-of quantity, and natives living in a state of grace. But the horse-riding ...