Darius: Herodotus on, 73; Marathon
expedition, 233n41
D’Arms, J. H., 265n73
Dates, chronological: “according to the
god,” 195, 295n124; correlation with
events, 12 – 15; as symbols, 9
Days, Roman: anniversaries of, 148 – 49;
counting of, 152 – 53; in Fasti Anni,
168; in Julian calendar, 158 – 60, 162,
163; legal status of, 170; lunar, 207,
298n174
D-Day (1944), synchronistic dating of,
22–23
De Cazanove, O., 90
Decemvirate: establishment of, 259n217;
institution of, 141
Degrassi, Attilio: on Fasti Anni, 285n2;
fastitranscriptions of, 167, 180, 185
Delphi: barbarian dedications at, 73; cal-
endar of, 300n206
Demetrius of Phalerum, 55
Demosthenes, 28
Dendrochronology, 250n129
Diamond, Jared, 111
Dicaearchus: Bios Hellados, 113; Cicero
on, 262n23; on Golden Age, 117,
261n23; influence on Catullus, 267n85;
primitivism of, 262n23; on stages of
decline, 119; Varro’s use of, 262n35
Dido, death of, 235n66
Dillery, John, 254n168
Dio Cassius: on fall of Rome, 276n47; on
Nero, 105; on rebuilding of cities, 145
Diocles of Peparethus, 96, 97, 98; Fabius
Pictor’s use of, 250n126, 253nn154 – 56
Diodorus Siculus: chronography of, 10,
245n59; mythic material of, 79, 81;
periodization of, 65; synchronism of,
46
Dionysius Exiguus, chronography of, 7
Dionysius of Halicarnassus: on Cato’s
chronography, 99; chronography of,
93, 251n139; on foundation of Rome,
91; knowledge of Timaeus, 250n135;
on mythical time, 78; rationalizations
of, 95
Dionysius of Syracuse: birth of, 232n23;
siege of Rhegium, 47; synchronism
with Euripides, 48; war with Cartha-
ginians, 46
Dionysus, Greek historiographers on, 78
Divus Julius, temple of, 285n1
Dreizehnter, A., 256n191; Die rhetorische
Zahl, 100
Drusus, German campaign of, 159
Dunn, F. M., 294n122
Dura Europa, Roman calendar of,
300n197
Duris, on Alexander the Great, 142
Durkheim, Emile, 217n9East: coins of, 299n189; Hellenized, 67;
Latin language in, 300n192; local cal-
endars of, 209 – 10
Easter, calculation of, 7
Egypt: antiquity of, 29, 262n24; Augus-
tus’s conquest of, 31; incorporation
into Roman empire, 65; Latin lan-
guage in, 300n192; synchronism
with Near East, 220n18
Emperors, Roman: anniversaries of
accession, 276n52
Empire, British: decline of, 285n166
Empire, Roman: Golden Age in, 131 – 34;
Hellenized East in, 67; laissez-faire in,
210; and Parthian empire, 240n127;
Roman religion in, 299n192; time
structures of, 2. See alsoPrincipate
Eneuma elis(cosmogony), 70
Ennius: Greekness of, 255n182; interest
in Pythagoreanism, 275n44; on rape
of Silvia, 205; Roman citizenship of,
143; Sicilian models of minor works,
57
—Annales, 256n185; ; closure point of,
66; consuls in, 287n22; end point of,- General Index