Alba Longa(continued)
kings of, 89, 96, 249n114; mythical
status of, 253n154
Alcaeus, as sailor, 266n77
Alexander Molossus, synchronism with
Alexander the Great, 39
Alexander the Great, 11; ancestry of,
142, 143, 144; birth of, 21, 48; death
of, 19; emulation of, 61 – 62, 238n105;
invasion of Asia, 142 – 43; as proto-
type for conquest, 60; sack of Tyre,
48; synchronisms concerning, 39, 48,
50; time reckoning by, 139
Allia, battle of the, 103, 209; day of, 106,
282n130
Allochrony, 25, 98
Almanacs, farmers’, 298n177
Alonso-Núñez, J. M., 229n118
Alpheius (river), 232n22
Amazonian Indians, 110
Amazonomachy (Parthenon), 71
Ambarvalia festival, 207
Americas, as Eden, 260n10
Amphipolis, myths of, 241n11
Amyntas of Macedon, 231n6
Anchises, prophecy of, 133, 134
Anderson, Benedict, 66 – 67; on homoge-
nous time, 210
Anderson, W. S., 258n214, 266n83
Andreau, J., 279n92
Andromache, sacrifices of, 278n74,
283n152
Annales Maximi, 293n101
Annalistic history, Roman, 6; Fabius Pic-
tor’s, 190, 293n100; Livy’s, 190; in
Tacitus, 191 – 92, 293n106, 294n114
Anna Perenna, feast of, 149
Anniversaries: birthdays as, 156 – 58; cal-
culation of, 150 – 51; of days, 148 – 49;
in Horace, 149, 159, 277n73; in Julian
calendar, 156 – 60; in Roman calendars,
6, 138, 142 – 45, 148, 162; of years,
142 – 45
Annunciation, Feast of, 297n164
Antalcidas, peace of, 232n17
Antiochus of Syracuse, 94, 254n164
Antiochus I Soter, 30; time reckoning
under, 139
Antiquity: Asian, 63; human progress in,
112; length of, 29; public monuments
of, 71 – 72; remoteness of, 233n35; sea-
faring in, 265n68
Antoninus Pius, 145
Antonius, M. (Marc Antony): birthday
of, 155 – 56; and Cleopatra, 102; culti-
vation of Hercules, 161, 282n141; on
fasti, 189
Anzac Day, 296n145
Apollo: and Daphne, 103; festival of,
154, 155
Apollodorus: Atticus and, 23; chronog-
raphy of, 58, 80; on foundation of
Rome, 93; intellectual history of, 34;
mnemonic devices of, 224n57; on
Roman events, 38; and Roman past, 25
—Chronica, xii, 19 – 20; book divisions
of, 82, 275n34; foundation of Rome
in, 24, 93; organization of, 275n34
Apollonius, 118, 264n60, 267n87; Peleus
and Thetis in, 267n89, 268n93
Appadurai, A., 218n14
Appian: Mithridatic Wars, 60; on Pom-
pey, 240n126; on Scipio, 235n68
April, as Neroneus, 292n88
Aratus: Cicero’s use of, 261n23; on
Golden Age, 270n118; on plowing,
263n40
Arcadians: acorn diet of, 162, 283n147; in
Aeneid, 161, 162 – 63
Archestratus, 57
Archidamian Wars, chronology of, 17
Archilochus, 21, 28
Archonships, Athenian, 195; Apollo-
dorus’s use of, 20, 58; dating by, 10,
18, 19, 221n35, 223n54; life, 64,
239n116- General Index