Theopompus of Chios, 49; use of myth,
244n51
Thermopylae, battle of, 20; synchronism
with Artemisium, 44; synchronism
with Himera, 51
Theseus: in Catullus 64, 124 – 25, 126; as
normal man, 269n115; on Parthenon,
71; return to Aegeus, 268n94
Thetis: myth of, 117 – 18. See alsoPeleus
and Thetis
Thomas, N., 260n6
Thucydides, 39; authorial self-
presentation of, 77; chronography
of, 17 – 18, 221n26, 222nn42,45,
223n46, 293n101; on historical knowl-
edge, 84; on mythic time, 243nn33 –
34; use of Herodotus, 244n34
Tiberius: on calendars, 188; in Fasti
Antiates, 292n84; in Fasti Capitolini,
180 – 81; German campaign of, 159;
Tacitus on, 192, 293n108; as VIIuir
epulonum, 292n84
Timaeus of Tauromenium: on Aeneas,
95; on Alexander the Great, 142;
chronography of, 18 – 19, 223n51;
Cicero on, 233n39; Dionysius of Hali-
carnassus’s knowledge of, 250n135; on
fall of Troy, 94, 250n136, 274n33; as
father of Roman historiography, 53;
on first Olympiad, 84, 85; on First
Punic War, 250n135; on foundation of
Carthage, 92, 95, 96 – 97, 252n152; on
foundation of Rome, 53, 92 – 97,
249nn119,122, 251n135; Polybius on,
49 – 51, 94; Pyrrhica, 250n135; on
Roman imperium, 236n69; on Rome-
Carthage conflict, 55 – 56; on Sicilian
achievement, 49 – 50, 233n39; on Sicil-
ian colonies, 97; Sicilian point of view,
93, 94; synchronism of, 19, 47 – 52,
230n125, 232n20; on Syracuse, 49; use
of columns, 228n104; use of Greek
myth, 94 – 95; use ofnostoi, 94
Time: absolute, 15, 221n34, 297n157;
anthropological study of, 4, 220n22,
260n6; Aztec view of, 218n10; brain
physiology of, 12; cosmogonic, 79 –
80; cultural dimension of, 3, 4, 218n14;
European obsession with, 215; in fall
from innocence, 109; Herodotus’s con-
ception of, 75; holistic, 3; homoge-
nous, 210; impact of Industrial Revo-
lution on, 217n4; individual experience
of, 213; International Atomic (T.A.I.),
294n120; in Iron Age, 117; Lévi-
Strauss’s model of, 3, 4; lunar, 194,
195, 207, 298n174; measurement of
intervals, 13, 221n27; medieval, 3;
objective, 218n15; and place, 1; pre-
Promethean, 117; as process, 221nn34 –
35; public/private, 12; relative, 15,
221n35; Renaissance, 215, 300n205;
ritual representations of, 218n10; sci-
entific measurement of, 294n120; soci-
ology of, 260n6; solar, 194; and space,
1; Universal 1 (U.T.1), 294n120
Time, civil: and absolute time, 297n157;
under Augustus, 169; Censorinus on,
202; Greek, 195; in Julian calendar,
193, 205; and natural time, 147, 193 –
94, 202 – 6, 296n144; in Ovid, 202 – 4,
205 – 6; in Varro, 202, 276n55
Time, cyclical, 110; Greek, 3; in Horace,
214; and linear time, 169 – 70; non-
calendrical, 198; Roman, 169, 184
Time, Greek: advantages of reckoning,
8; civil, 195; cyclical, 3; versusEgypt-
ian time, 75; of gods and men, 75;
natural, 195; and Roman time, 3, 5
Time, historical, 5; definition of, 69;
foundation of Rome in, 86, 88 – 100;
in Herodotus, 72 – 76; and historical
truth, 245n61; organization of, 12 – 15;
Romulus in, 87 – 88; transition from
mythic time, 6, 68 – 70, 77 – 86, 88 – 95,
108, 119; Trojan War in, 83General Index. 357