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

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History: monumental sources of, 247n95;
and myth, 241n2, 245n53; Panhellenic,
18, 85; progressive view of, 114; simi-
les in, 24 – 25; universal, 63, 65 – 67
History, sacred: continuous, 241n3; syn-
chronization with profane, 29
Hobsbawm, E., 219n11
Homer: akme-of, 21; Herodotus’s use of,
242n23; Scipio’s use of, 55; time
stratification in, 241n4
—Iliad: eyewitnesses in, 74; past time in,
70, 74
—Odyssey, shipmaking metaphor in, 120
Horace: anniversary celebrations by, 149,
277n73; bimillenary of death, 275n46;
on fasti, 185; on human progress,
266nn80,84; on Ides, 279n97; immor-
tality themes, 214, 217n6; ode to Vir-
gil, 121; on sailing, 121 – 22; transgres-
sion imagery of, 122; Trojan War in,
83, 84; use of anniversaries, 159; use
of Castor of Rhodes, 63
—Carmen4.7, cyclical time in, 214
—Carmen Saeculare, 214; Golden Age in,
133–34
—Epode2: calendar in, 207 – 8, 299n181;
Terminalia in, 208, 299n180; Virgil
and, 299n179
—Epode16: Blessed Isles in, 260n8;
Golden Age in, 132
Horden, P. and Purcell, N.: The Corrupt-
ing Sea, 264n62
Horsfall, Nicholas, 219n9, 238n104,
261n16; on historical allegory in Vir-
gil’s Aeneid, 282n139
Housman, A. E., xii
Huber, L., 242n24
Hunter, V., 15, 221nn34 – 35


Ides (Roman calendar), 152, 153; in cal-
culating birthday celebrations, 155;
in Fasti Antiates, 184; Horace on,
279n97; position of, 279n101, 280n104


Imperium, Roman: Augustus’s, 159,
291n83; Catullus on, 61 – 63, 238n106;
incorporation of East into, 60; pan-
Mediterranean, 59; under Pompey, 63;
role of universal history in, 66;
Timaeus on, 236n69. See also Transla-
tio imperii
Incarnation: dating of, 7, 8; in Scaliger’s
Emendatio Temporum, 218n1; era of,
273n16. See also B.C./A.D.
Industrial Revolution, impact on time,
217n4
Iron Age: agriculture in, 111; artesof,
129 – 30; escape from, 128; harbingers
of, 119, 121, 128, 263n52, 266n81,
267n85; in Italy, 250n129; Near East-
ern origins of, 111; in Roman myth,
112; Rome during, 91; in Seneca, 127 –
31; time in, 117; transition from
Golden Age, 6, 69, 107, 108, 119 – 20,
132; in Virgil, 114 – 15, 128, 262n33
Iron Race, 112; Ovid on, 272n145; ten-
sion with Golden Race, 261n11
Isthmian games, dating of, 248n96
Italy: Greek colonies in,
254nn160,167,170; Iron Age, 250n129
Italy, southern: non-Greeks of, 254n170
Iuno, cult of, 148
Iustitia Augusta, image of, 292n84

Jackson, S., 263n52
Jacoby, Felix, 13 – 14, 246n76, 250n133;
Apollodors Chronik, xii; on Eratos-
thenes, 84; on Hieronymus of Cardia,
250n134; on Timaeus, 250n135, 274n33
Janus: closing of gates of, 292n84;
Roman ruins of, 164; sacrifices to, 168,
192, 286n10
Jason of Pherae, 231n6
Jaspers, Karl, 232n7
Jefferson, Thomas, 44
Jerome, Saint: chronography of, 5, 29 –
32, 225n77; historical space of, 242n15

General Index. 347

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