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

Strabo, on foundation of Croton, 97
Suerbaum, W., 155, 156
Suetonius: and Julian calendar, 154, 197;
on Republican calendar, 200
Sullan War, 146
Sundial, of Campus Martius, 94
Sybaris, foundation of, 97
Syme, Ronald, 145; on anniversary men-
tality, 276n49; Roman Revolution,
158–59
Syncellus, George, 80 – 81
Synchronism: Aristotle on, 43 – 44, 59;
Asian/Hellenistic, 63; Asian/
Mediterranean, 59 – 65; Athenian/
Sicilian, 44 – 47, 49, 230n125; B.C./A.D.,
13; Christian, 28 – 32; Cicero’s, 25 – 28;
difficulties of, 41 – 42; East/ West, 46 –
47; Fabius Pictor’s, 48; in first Olym-
piad, 85; Gellius’s, 5, 11, 32 – 42; histor-
ical depth in, 68; lateral, 68; Panhel-
lenic, 18; Pan-Mediterranean, 229n110;
Platea/ Mycale, 44, 231n8; Roman/
Carthaginian, 92 – 93, 250n135,
251n138; in Roman historiography,
20 – 23, 52; Salamis/Himera, 43 – 44,
45, 46, 51, 231n11; selection process in,
25; symbolism of, 45; Thermopylae/
Himera, 51; Timaeus’s, 19, 47 – 52,
230n125, 232n20; in translatio imperii,

68. See alsoParallelism
    Synchronism, Greek: first instruments
    of, 16 – 20
    Synchronism, Hellenistic, 20; Atheno-
    centric, 23
    Synchronism, Roman: first instruments
    of, 20 – 23
    Synchronization: mnemonic, 300n194;
    Panellenic, 4 – 5; in Roman Helleniza-
    tion, 5
    Syndikus, H. P., 269n105
    Synkrisis: in Hellenization, 24; Plutarch’s
    use of, 24, 41
    Syracuse: calendar of, 230n2;

Deinomenid rulers of, 236n73; as

failed Rome, 234n44; imperial preten-

sions of, 51 – 52; Marcellus at, 52,

234n50; power of, 46; Roman capture

of, 52; Timaeus on, 49; victories

against Carthage, 52

Tablets, bronze: legal documents on,

288n27

Tacitus: on annalistic technique, 190; on

Bassus, 272n158; on Capitoline tem-

ple, 259n218; on development of laws,

113, 115; on Golden Age, 261n21;

numerology of, 106; on stages of

decline, 119; time reckoning of, 171,

190 – 93; use of annalistic format, 191 –

92, 293n106, 294n114; use offasti,

191, 193; on Vespasian, 115; view

of decline, 115

—Annales:burning of Rome in, 106;

epochal demarcations in, 105; Nero

in, 105 – 7, 135, 191, 259n219,

293nn108,113; Syme ’s prequel to, 158 –

59; Tiberius in, 192, 293n108

—Germania, heroic epoch in, 246n66

Tarentines: battles with barbarians,

231n11; war with Lucanians, 47

Tarpeia, 258n208

Techne-, knowledge claims for, 76 – 77

Technology: control of, 76 – 77; Roman,

2; transgressive, 121 – 22

Temporality: in Catullus 64, 125 – 27; of

epochal demarcations, 109; of gods,

75, 117 – 18, 263n49; in Golden Age,

116, 127; in nationalism, 66 – 67; of

Republic, 170

Terminalia: calculation of, 280n106; in

Horace, 208, 299n180; Varro on,

296n143

Thebes: founding of, 113; mirroring of

Athens, 235n62

Themistocles, 27

Theodorakopoulos, E., 268n99

356. General Index