Carthage, 145; on fortune, 235n67; on
sack of Carthage, 54, 55, 165, 235n68
Scipio, P. Cornelius Africanus Maior, 11;
death of, 231n6; on Sicily, 57; at
Zama, 235n67
Scipio Nasica, P. Cornelius, 15
Seafaring: in antiquity, 265n68; freedom
from, 120; plowing metaphor for,
264n59. See alsoSailing
Seasons: harmonization with civil time,
297n153; in Horace, 214; Pliny the
Elder on, 201. See alsoTime, natural
Sejanus, 192
Seleucid era, 273nn5 – 6; dating by, 139
Seleucids, 31; conquest of, 60, 64
Sellar, W. C., and Yeatman, R. J., 79 – 80
Senators, ban on commerce for, 121,
265n73
Seneca: on the Chauci, 260n7; on Fall of
man, 129; on Golden Age, 128, 135;
influence on Nero, 192; Iron Age in,
127 – 31; on sailing, 129 – 30, 270n123;
on state of nature, 130 – 31; view of
philosophy, 130, 131
—Epistle90, 129; night sky in, 269n112;
relationship to Posidonius in, 270n124
—Phaedra, 128 – 29; human nature in,
270n116; Theseus’ cultural demarca-
tions in, 269n115
Servius, on foundation of Rome, 252n140
Servius Danielis, on Virgil’s Eclogues,
277n62
Servius Tullius, 177; census under,
289n55
Sestius, L., 180
Sextilis (August), 161, 185
Sextius (tribune), 190
Shaw, P.-J., 9, 15, 221n35
Shimron, B., 242nn15,17
Shipbuilding, as emblem of intelligence,
265n65
Ships: as agents of Fall of man, 127 – 31;
symbolism of, 120, 127; transgressive-
ness of, 121, 122, 123, 127. See also
Argo; Sailing
Sicily: Greek coexistence with Carthage
in, 56; Herodotus on, 236n73; impor-
tance in Mediterranean, 47 – 52; paral-
lelism with Rome, 52 – 57; Romans in,
56; synchronism with Athens, 44 – 47,
49, 230n125
Sigonio, Carlo: Fasti Consulares, 285n2
Silenus (Greek historian), 56
Silvanus, cult of, 283n151
Silver Race, 111 – 12
Silvia (Vestal), rape of, 205
Simile, historical, 24 – 25
Simmias of Rhodes, 300n207
Simonides, 241n9; “New,” 70 – 71
Skutsch, O., 258n208, 275n42
Smart, J. D., 222n45
Smith, Jonathan Z., 98
Smith, Vance, 219n9
Social War, 146; in fasti, 290n63; in Livy,
190
Societies: development from communi-
ties, 260n4; hot and cold, 110
Society, prelapsarian, 109 – 10; in Roman
literature, 115 – 16
Society, Roman: agrarian basis of, 2;
time in, 1 – 2
Solar eclipses, 193 – 94
Solinus, chronography of, 246n83
Solon: Cicero on, 222n40; on seafaring,
120
Sophistic, Second: Athenocentrism of, 58
Sosigenes (astronomer), 197
Sowing, Day of, 199, 203
Sparta, extinction of, 100 – 101
Stage, Roman: foundation of Rome on,
91, 249n126
Statius, on Nemean games, 223n48
Stern, S., 221n34
Stoicism: on corrupting civilization,
264n56; harmony with nature in,
127, 128, 269n108General Index. 355