Oral tradition, transition to literate, 109
Orosius, 256n192
Ovid: birthday of, 157 – 58, 211; on Iron
Race, 272n145; and Lucretius, 298n165
—Ars Amatoria, days in, 208 – 9
—Fasti:astronomy in, 295n133; begin-
ning of year in, 204 – 5; Caesar’s
reforms in, 203; civil time in, 202 – 4,
205 – 6; continuity in, 282nn132,135;
cyclical time in, 169; Day of Sowing
in, 203; death of Augustus in, 169;
foundation of Rome in, 103; German-
icus in, 169; Golden Age in, 135; Hes-
iod in, 299n183; identity of days in,
159, 160; Ides of March in, 149; impe-
rial family in, 187 – 88; Mars in, 205;
natural time in, 202 – 6, 297n159,
298n169; Romulus in, 203, 205; space
in, 215; technique of, 283n143; time in,
6, 169, 288n37
—Metamorphoses:Argo in, 268n96;
Athens in, 237n83; Castor of Rhodes’s
influence on, 239n120; foundation of
Rome in, 103; linear time in, 169; rise
of Rome in, 165
—Tristia:birthdays in, 157 – 58; city of
Rome in, 284n158; time in, 211
Paganicae (Country-District Holiday),
199
Pais, E., 20
Palamedes, invention of astronomy,
263n42, 223n45
Pan, in Herodotus, 245n53
Panaetius (Stoic), 11
Panhellenism, 45; chronography of, 4 – 5,
18
Papus, Aemilius: censorship of, 35
Parallelism: East/West, 232n16; Greek/
Roman, 24, 27, 225n85; in Roman
historiography, 20 – 21. See also
Synchronism
Parapegmata, 296nn141 – 42, 298n174;
forms of, 198; lunar days in, 207,
298n174; as meteorological index,
200 – 201; Varro’s use of, 201
Parcae, in Catullus 64, 126
Parilia, feast of, 22, 103, 149, 258n208
Parthenon, Athenian: past time on,
71–72
Past, Roman: synchronism with Greek
past, 67
Past time: in Attic tragedy, 70; Augus-
tus’s redrawing of, 183; on Parthenon,
71 – 72; shaping of, 147
Pattern, in human perception, 44
Peleus, gold palace of, 272n146
Peleus and Thetis: in Apollonius,
267n89; divorce of, 123 – 24, 267n89,
268n93; marriage of, 123, 125 – 26,
268n96; meeting of, 124, 125, 267n88
Pelling, C., 88, 242n21
Peloponnesian War: synchronism with
Carthaginian wars, 46; synchronism
with Roman wars, 39
Pendulum, invention of, 301n205
Periodization, 246n73; of Diodorus
Siculus, 65; in Roman historiography,
248n106
Persian Wars: Athenocentric representa-
tion of, 233n34; in Attic tragedy, 70 –
71; dating from, 18; in Fasti Capi-
tolini, 173; synchronism with Volscian
war, 27, 38
Persius (king of Macedon), 173, 221n28
Petavius, Domenicus: Opus De Doctrina
Temporum, 8
Petronius, 265n72
Phaedrus, on the Argo, 268n97
Pharsalus, battle of, 140
Philinus of Acragas, 56
Philip of Macedon, 40
Philippi, battle of: synchronisms of,
231n8
Philip the Arab, 144, 275n46
Philodemus, invitation to Piso, 158General Index. 351