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

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240n131; on fall of Troy, 143, 256n190;
on foundation of Rome, 99; ; Livy’s
use of, 256n194; Muses in, 144,
275n42; numeric symbolism of, 101;
refoundation of Rome in, 100, 101;
sacred time in, 170; Virgil’s use of,
293n109
—Medea exul; on the Argo, 119, 125;
Golden Age in, 264n54
Ephors, Spartan: dating by, 18, 19,
223n54
Ephorus: on mythical time, 78; synchro-
nism of, 44
Epic, Aristotle on, 43
Epicharmus, 57
Epicurus, synchronism with Fabricius, 35
Epimethius, 111
Eponymity: principles of, 168; in reckon-
ing of time, 174 – 75, 176. See also
Consular dating system, Roman;
Magistrates, Roman: eponymous
Equirria festival, calculation of, 280n106
Equus October (Roman festival), 94
Eras: honorific, 140; in reckoning of
time, 139 – 42
Eratosthenes: chronological boundaries
of, 80, 224n55; dating system of, 85;
on fall of Troy, 19, 86, 142, 223n53,
253n159, 283n144; on first Olympiad,
84, 85; Hellenism of, 49; on Olympi-
ads, 223n54; on Roman-Carthaginian
parallels, 54; on Roman events, 38;
Varro’s use of, 247n92
—Chronographiae:organization of, 13;
publication of, 253n156; terminus of,
19
Etesian winds, 206
Etruscans, absorption into Rome, 146
Euhemerus, 57
Euripides: Medea, 118, 119; on seafaring,
120; synchronism with Dionysius of
Syracuse, 48
Eusebius of Caesarea: chronography of,


5, 29; chronological boundaries of, 80;
on translatio imperii, 37; use of Mace-
donian calendar, 225n77; use of tables,
29, 228n104
Evander: and Aeneas, 162, 163, 164,
284nn155,157; as postlapsarian man,
166
Experience, lived versusimagined, 109

Fabian, Johannes, 1; on allochrony, 25
Fabius Pictor: annalistic method of, 190;
on foundation of Rome, 95 – 96, 97,
98, 255n182; History, 99; Naevius’s
knowledge of, 255n178; as originator
of annals, 190, 293n100; reckoning
system of, 253n153, 258n205; sources
of, 96; synchronism of, 48; use of
Diocles, 250n126, 253nn154 – 56
Fabricius, censorship of, 35
Fall of man, 112 – 13; Augustan poets on,
261n20; Judaeo-Christian, 112; Seneca
on, 129; ships as agents of, 127 – 31
Fasti: aedilicii, 286n8; birthdays in, 189;
of city of Rome, 206; of Cn. Flavius,
291n82; etymology of, 286n5; exegeti-
cal material in, 170; honorifics in,
185 – 89; Horace on, 185; imperial, 184,
185 – 89, 210; interdependence among,
168 – 70, 286nn8,13; and Julian calen-
dar, 167; monumental, 168; power of,
139; Republican and imperial, 184;
Social war in, 290n63; synchronized
time in, 210; Tacitus’s use of, 191, 193;
in temple of Hercules Musarum, 144;
transformations to, 167; tribunicii,
286n8
Fasti Amiternini, 184
Fasti Anni, 167, 168, 285n2; astronomical
information in, 296n142; cyclical time
in, 169; fixing of days, 168; parapeg-
mata and, 296n142; relationship to
Fasti Consulares, 171 – 72; in temple
of Hercules Musarum, 168, 169 – 70

General Index. 343

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