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

Roman literature, 34 – 35; subject mat-
ter of, 33 – 34; synchronistic essay of,
5, 11, 32 – 42
Gellner, Ernest, 129
Gelon (tyrant of Syracuse), 45 – 46,
233n35; negotiations with Greeks, 50
Genethliaca(birthday poems), 158
Genius, cult of, 148
Germanicus, in Ovid, 169
Geus, K., 223n55
Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall,
284n156
Gigantomachy: on Parthenon, 71; as
struggle with barbarians, 56 – 57
Gildenhard, I., 170, 287n25
Gilgamesh(epic), 70
Ginsberg, J., 190 – 91
Glabrio, M.’ Acilius, 172
Gods: departure of, 263n46; genealogies
of, 117; relations with men, 117 – 18;
state deities, 176; temporality of, 75,
117 – 18, 263n49
Gold: in city of Rome, 272n151; moral
associations of, 133 – 34
Golden Age: absentiain, 116; in the
Aeneid, 133, 134, 163, 166; agriculture
in, 270n118; Aratus on, 270n118; ban
on plowing in, 263n40; communica-
tion with, 127; constellations of, 128,
206; cyclical, 163 – 64; Dicaearchus on,
117, 261n23; divine recurrence in, 117;
in Ennius, 264n54; freedom from sea-
faring, 120; Hesiod on, 111, 112, 117,
131, 261n15; in Horace, 132, 133 – 34;
human-divine relations and, 117 – 18,
263n46; as hunter-gatherer society,
110 – 11; legitimacy of, 132, 271n135;
Near Eastern origins of, 112; Nero’s,
131, 135 – 37; nostalgia for, 137; Posido-
nius on, 270n124; returns to, 271n129;
in Roman empire, 131 – 34; in Roman
literature, 115 – 16; in Roman myth,
112; of Saturn, 114, 163; Seneca on,

128, 135; shift from Golden Race, 115,

263n38; as sloth, 114; Tacitus on,

261n21; temporality in, 116, 127; tran-

sition to Iron Age, 6, 69, 107, 108,

119 – 20, 132; Varro on, 113; Virgilian,

131 – 33, 262n33

Golden Age, Augustan, 131; desirability

of, 133; Ovid on, 134 – 35; in Virgil,

133, 134, 163, 166

Golden Race, 111; shift to Golden Age,

115, 263n38; tension with Iron Race,

261n11

Gow, A. S. F. and Page, D. L., 284n159

Grafton, A., 58, 215, 219n13, 220n18,

224n55

Grandazzi, A., 91

Grant, M., 148

Gratwick, A., 143

Great Britain: adoption of Gregorian cal-

endar, 151, 279n91, 281n118, 295n132;

beginning of year in, 297n164; Cae-

sar’s invasion of, 63; regnal years in,

225n78

Greece: ; cultural influence of, 224n67,

229n114; East-West rivalry in, 49 – 50,

59; Roman triumphalism over, 144;

parallelism with Akkadia, 241n6; syn-

chronism with Orient, 239n113. See

alsoAthens; Cities, Greek

Greek language, as lingua franca,

300n192

Greeks, Sicilian: Hellenicity of, 236n70

Griffin, J., 278n73, 299n181

Gruen, E. S., 5, 60, 249n15

Habinek, T., 27

Hall, E., 70 – 71

Hamilcar, ancestry of, 56

Hanell, K., 52 – 53, 168, 286n6

Hannibal: death of, 231n6; defeat of, 104;

threat to Roman alliances with Magna

Graecia, 98

Harrell, S., 236n73

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