Philopoemon, 231n6
Philosophy: as original condition, 130;
Posidonius on, 270n121; Seneca’s view
of, 130, 131
Phoenicians, settlement of Western
Mediterranean, 252n140, 254n162
Pindar: on Alpheius River, 232n22; First
Pythian, 45, 49; layering of time in,
283n143
Platea, battle of, 17, 18; dating of, 10;
synchronism with Mycale, 44, 231n8;
and Trojan War, 71
Plautus: on reckoning of time, 116 – 17;
use of Menander, 263n44
Plebiscitum Claudianum, 265n73
Pliny the Elder: on Julius Caesar, 60 – 61;
on seasons, 201
Plüss, T., 299n177
Plutarch: Athenocentrism of, 237n86;
chronography of, 10; on departure
of gods, 263n50; on Julian calendar,
295n133; on mythical time, 78; on
Numa, 88; on Roman months, 220n15;
on Syracuse, 52; use ofsynkrisis, 24,
41
—Quaestiones Graecae et Romanae:
beginning of year in, 204; calendar
in, 211, 300n206
Polybius: chronography of, 47; closure
point of, 66, 240n134; on geography,
80; and Hellenization of Rome, 58;
organization of narrative, 293n101; on
Roman-Carthaginian parallels, 54; on
sack of Carthage, 54 – 55; synchro-
nisms of, 48, 256n189; on Timaeus,
49 – 51, 94; universalism of, 59; use of
ring composition, 55; vision of Rome,
236n68
Polycrates: Herodotus on, 73, 75; Minos
and, 73
Pompeius Trogus: on East/West duality,
240n127; on Pyrrhus, 229n120; uni-
versal history of, 65 – 66
Pompey: Appian on, 240n126; birthday
of, 148, 222n36; Eastern conquests
of, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65; emulation of
Alexander, 62; impact on Hellenistic
literature, 238n104; as king of kings,
238nn98,101; Lucan on, 238n103;
pirate command of, 238n94; in reck-
oning of eras, 140
Poplifugia festival, 280n105
Porta Mugonia (Rome), 164, 284n157
Poseidon, on Parthenon, 71
Posidonius, 129; on Golden Age,
270n124; on philosophy, 270n121;
on state of man, 130
Postumius Albinus, L., 172
Potidaea, battle of, 17, 18
Potitii (family), 282n141
Primitivism, hard and soft, 115
Principate: ab urbe conditadating in,
289n48; consuls under, 177, 289n56,
290n63; fastiof, 185, 189, 210; histori-
ography under, 190 – 93; in Julian cal-
endar, 185 – 89; reconfiguring of time
under, 172 – 89, 288n37. See also
Empire, Roman; Fasti Capitolini
Probability, statistical, 44, 231n7
Prometheus: in Catullus 64, 269n102;
culpability of, 111; symbolism of,
266n84; theft offire, 122
Propertius, 258n208, 278n73; on bucolic
past, 284n161
Prosopography, Roman, 222n37. See also
Fasti Consulares
Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 229n120
Punic War, First: in Fasti Capitolini, 173;
as Gigantomachy, 57; in Naevius, 56-
57; seafaring in, 121; Timaeus on,
250n135
Punic War, Second: Gellius on, 37
Punic Wars, Greek historians on, 236n71
Purcell, N., 57, 59, 142; on synchronism,
226n87
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