Argetsinger, K., 278n76
Argo (ship), 118 – 20; Apollonius on,
264n60; in Catullus 64, 119, 123 – 26,
264n55; Ennius on, 119, 125; as harbin-
ger of culture, 264n58; as harbinger of
Iron Age, 263n52, 266n81, 267n85; as
originary moment, 125; primacy of,
118, 119, 263n52, 264n55, 268nn96,99;
sea nymphs and, 123, 267n86
Argos: decline of, 284n160; priestesses
of, 17 – 18, 19, 223n54; ruins of, 164
Aristocracy, Roman: perception of time,
16; view of commerce, 265n73
Aristodemus, tyranny of, 224n63
Aristotle: on epic, 43; on synchronism,
43 – 44, 59
Artemis, burning of Ephesus temple,
275n33
Artemisium, battle of: synchronism with
Thermopylae, 44
Asheri, David, 142
Asia: antiquity of, 63; Greek triumphal-
ism over, 144; synchronism with
Mediterranean, 59 – 65
Asinius Quadratus, 248n105; on founda-
tion of Rome, 87; Ro-maike-Chiliete-ris,
144
Astrologers, time charts of, 219n13
Astronomy: in Fasti,295n133; invention
of, 263n42. See also Constellations
Athens: Boule-, 195; calendars of, 58,
195 – 96; cultural influence of, 237n83;
imperial status of, 234n47; in Meta-
morphoses, 237n83; mirroring by
Thebes, 235n62; Olympiad chronicle
from, 247n90; Parthenon, 71 – 72;
Roman interest in, 237n83; Sicilian
expedition, 229n120; synchronism
with Rome, 58; synchronism with
Sicily, 44 – 47, 49, 230n125
Atticus, Cicero’s correspondence with,
14, 15 – 16
—Liber Annalis, 23, 35, 63, 227nn94 – 95;
Cicero’s use of, 26 – 28, 221n31; layout
of, 27 – 28; parallelisms in, 27; syn-
chronism of, 25, 26
Aubet, M. E., 254n171
Augustalia festival, 185, 189
Augustus: assumption ofimperium, 159,
291n83; birthday of, 149, 154, 155,
280n107, 281n122; calendrical years
of, 184 – 89; civil time under, 169;
conquest of Egypt, 31; continuity
of Republic under, 160; cult of Mars
Ultor, 176, 289n52, 291n66; death of,
158, 169; as Divi filius, 291n70; entry
into Rome, 161, 282n141; Fasti Con-
sulares under, 172 – 83, 285n1, 288n37;
Forum temporal complex of, 167, 169,
172, 197; Golden Age of, 131, 133,
134 – 35, 163, 166; horologium complex
of, 197; iconography of, 133; on
length ofsaecula, 277n65; on Ludi
Saeculares, 277n66; mythology of
Fall under, 112 – 13; obituaries of, 158;
as Pontifex Maximus, 197; tribunicia
potestasof, 180, 181, 290n64; triumphs
of, 282n140. See alsoFasti Capitolini;
Principate
Axial Age, 232n7
Aztecs, calendar of, 218n10, 299n188Balbus, Cornelius, 181
Barbarism: Hellenistic struggle against,
45, 51; Rome as foe of, 55 – 57
Barchiesi, A., 97, 135, 149, 298n168; on
Ennius, 205
Bassus, Caesellius, 135 – 36, 272n158
Battles, reckoning from, 140
B.C./A.D.: adoption of, 7 – 9, 12, 219n4; in
European languages, 273n1; synchro-
nism of, 13; zero in, 275n46
Beard, M., 149, 209
Bede, Venerable: chronography of, 7
Bellerophon, 241n4
Benson, M., 294n120General Index. 337