Rome, foundation of(continued)
255n182; foundation of Republic as,
175; and Gallic sack, 103 – 4; gradual
nature of, 91; and Greek colonies, 95,
97 – 98; Greek failure to mention, 24;
in Greek historiography, 86, 89, 91,
99; Hellenistic chronography on,
249n114; historical, 86 – 100, 250n134;
and life archonships, 239n116; Livy
on, 78 – 79, 88, 257n197; mechanical
calculation of, 253n159; myth in, 68 –
69, 86 – 88; Naevius on, 99, 255nn181 –
82; Nepos on, 21; during nostoiperiod,
92, 251n134; in Ovid, 103; in Roman
historiography, 89 – 91; on Roman
stage, 91, 249n126; Sallust on, 105;
Servius on, 252n140; Tacitus on, 105;
Timaeus on, 53, 92 – 97, 249nn119,122,
251n135; time shift in, 88 – 89, 250n133;
tradition in, 91, 250n127; Varro on, 23;
in Virgil, 88. See alsoSack of Rome,
Gallic
Romulus: apotheosis of, 26, 258n208;
calendar of, 188, 297n158; Cicero on,
87; civil year of, 291n69; in Fasti Tri-
umphales, 181; Greek Eastern tradi-
tion on, 248n108; in historical time,
87 – 88; Livy on, 87, 248n108; myth
of, 90 – 91; in Ovid, 203, 205; as proto-
Augustus, 188; Trojan ancestry of, 86,
99, 255n177; twelve vultures of, 147
Rostovtzeff, M., 279n92
Rüpke, Jörg, 184, 185, 189, 287n25; on
triumphal fasti, 291n69; on Varro,
297n152
Rutilius Namatianus, 104
Sabbath, Jewish, 159, 209
Sabinus, death of, 192, 193
Sack of Rome, Gallic, 39, 47, 48, 100;
on Aeneas’s Shield, 102; as epochal
demarcation, 100 – 104, 258n205; and
foundation of Rome, 103 – 4; geese at,
258n207; Greek knowledge of,
230n122; Livy on, 101 – 2, 141,
257n205; and Nero’s fire, 106;
synchronisms of, 48, 232n17; and
Tarpeia, 258n208
Saecula, 145 – 48, 219n9; eschatological
power of, 146; Etruscan, 146 – 47;
length of, 145 – 46, 277n65. See also
Ludi Saeculares
Sailing: as crime, 265n63; as epochal
demarcation, 118 – 31; estrangement
from nature through, 120 – 22; in First
Punic War, 121; and flying, 266n81;
Hesiod on, 266n78; Horace on, 121 –
22; origin of, 118 – 19; Lucretius on,
263n43; Roman interest in, 118, 120 –
21; Seneca on, 129 – 30, 270n123; sus-
picion of, 120. See alsoSeafaring
Salamis, battle of: coincidences attend-
ing, 231n8; synchronism with Himera,
43 – 44, 45, 46, 51, 231n11
Salii, processions of, 162
Sallust, on foundation of Rome, 105
Samnites: as barbarians, 236n73; defeat
of, 104; time frame of, 98
Samuel, A. E., 204
Saturn, 267n91; Age of, 131; arrival in
Latium, 272n150; Golden Age of, 114,
163; in Ovid ’s Fasti, 135; Roman wall
of, 164. See alsoCronus
Scaliger, Joseph, 220n18; De Emenda-
tione Temporum, 8; incarnation era in,
218n1; Isagogici Chronologiae Canones,
219n4; on Julian calendar, 193, 194;
Thesaurus Temporum, 219n4
Schütz, M., 295n139
Science, and historiography, 76 – 77,
244nn39,45
Science, Greek: methodology of, 77
Scipio, Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius: death
of, 276n51; defeat in Libya, 145
Scipio, P. Cornelius Aemilianus
Africanus Minor, 11; conquest of- General Index