Time, linear, 3; in consulships, 171; and
cyclical time, 169 – 70; Roman, 184
Time, mythic, 5; Diodorus Siculus on,
79; Dionysius of Halicarnassus on,
78; foundation of Rome in, 68 – 69, 86;
Greek historiographers on, 78; in
Herodotus, 72 – 76; Thucydides on,
243nn33 – 34; transition to historical
time, 6, 68 – 70, 77 – 86, 88 – 95, 108,
119
Time, natural: Censorinus on, 202;
Cicero on, 297n154; and civil time,
147, 193 – 94, 202 – 6, 296n144; in Geor-
gics, 207; Greek, 195; in Julian calen-
dar, 193, 205; markers in, 223n48; in
Ovid, 202 – 6, 297n159, 298n169;
Varro on, 198 – 200, 202, 276n54
Time, Roman, 1 – 2; annalistic, 2; aristo-
crats’ perception of, 16; cultural de-
bate on, 202; cyclical, 184; effect of
empire on, 193; extension of, 138; in
Fasti, 6; and Greek time, 3; influence
of, 213; linear, 184; metaphors, 217n6;
modern aspects of, 2, 215; outside city,
211; in post-Roman Europe, 193; pre-
modern aspects of, 2; in private
sphere, 217n6; public/private dimen-
sions of, 2; reconfiguring under Prin-
cipate, 172 – 89, 288n37; Romans’
obsessions with, 215; rural and urban,
206 – 9; sacred, 2, 170
Time events, contiguity between, 220n22
Time travel, through contemplation of
ancient objects, 283n153
Time zones, international, 10
Timoleon, synchronism with Alexander
the Great, 50
Timpe, D., 250n126
Titus, capture of Jerusalem, 32
Tomis, Iron Age, 264n52
Tönnies, Ferdinand, 260n4
Tradition, invention of, 252n145
Tragedy, Attic: past time in, 70; subject
matter of, 241n7
Translatio imperii, 229n118; Augustus on,
229n110; in classical historiography,
236n68; fall of Troy as, 82; Gellius
on, 37, 41; Polybius on, 55; synchro-
nism in, 68
Tribuni militum, in Fasti Capitolini, 172
Trojan War: Cato on, 100; in Catullus
64, 126; Cretan participation in, 74,
243n28; historical time in, 83; home-
comings from, 86; Lucretius on,
83 – 84; on Marmor Parium, 82;
and Platea, 71
Troy: archaeology of, 91; as prototype of
Rome, 55
Troy, fall of: date of, 142, 274n33; Ennius
on, 143, 256n190; as epochal demarca-
tion, 78, 79, 81 – 84, 107, 108, 109, 117,
118, 142 – 45; Eratosthenes on, 19, 86,
142, 223n53, 253n159, 283n144; foun-
dation of Rome following, 88, 89, 90,
94, 213, 252nn142,152, 255n182; Jerome
on, 83; Livy on, 82; millennial cele-
brations of, 142, 143, 144, 275n39; on
Parthenon, 71; in Roman tradition, 82;
Timaeus on, 94, 250n136, 274n33; as
translatio imperii, 82; Varro on, 82 – 84;
in Virgil, 83
Twain, Mark, 12 – 13
Tyrants, Athenian: expulsion of, 21
Tyrian annals, 250n138United States, dating from Indepen-
dence, 226n81
Universalism, Roman, 59 – 63Valerius Flaccus, on the Argo, 266n81,
268n99
Varro: Castor of Rhodes’s influence on,
239n120; chronography of, 291n78;
chronological researches of, 63;- General Index