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

demarcations of past time, 81; on fall
of Troy, 82 – 84; historical time in, 81 –
82; mythical time in, 81; on nature ver-
susartifice, 270n118; on saecula, 147;
on stages of decline, 119; synchronism
of, 25; on Terminalia, 296n143; time
divisions of, 77 – 78, 79, 246n74,
247n92; use of Dicaearchus, 262n35;
use of Eratosthenes, 247n92
—De Gente Populi Romani, 23, 227n95
—De Lingua Latina:calendar in, 198 –
99; civil time in, 202, 276n55; festivals
in, 199 – 200, 296n146; natural time in,
198 – 200, 202, 276n54; Republican
calendar in, 198
—De Re Rustica:date of, 297n152;
Golden Age in, 113; Julian calendar
in, 200 – 201, 207; parapegmata in,
201; progress in, 262n30
—Imagines, 226n84
Vattuone, R., 48, 232n19; on Timaeus,
252n152
Vediovis, temple of, 159
Vegoia, prophecy of, 146
Veii: capture of, 235n64; as Rome ’s twin,
284n161
Velleius Paterculus, 222n36, 229n111;
on Athenian constitution, 230n125;
chronography of, 22, 225n73
Verbrugghe, G. P., 293n101
Versnel, H. S., 267n91, 271n127
Vespasian, 140; antiquuslifestyle of, 115
Vettius, on fall of Rome, 277n64
Vinalia (Wine Festival), 199; date of,
296n146
Virgil: audience of, 163, 166; bimillenary
of death, 275n46; birthday of, 150;
death of, 133; on refounding of Rome,
102; on sailing, 121 – 22; sea voyage of,
121; use of Ennius, 293n109; use of
Livy, 257n199
—Aeneid: Arcadians in, 161, 162 – 63;

chronological displacement in, 161 –

66, 210; city of Rome in, 160 – 66,

282n136; fall of Troy in, 83; founda-

tion of Rome in, 88, 255n183; funeral

games in, 148; Golden Age in, 133,

134, 163, 166; historical time in, 163;

Lucan’s parody of, 165; mythic time

in, 163; numerology in, 276n57; prim-

itivism in, 115; publication of, 133; rise

and fall in, 285n167; Roman connec-

tivity in, 300n196; Shield of Aeneas

in, 102, 162; wormhole effect in,

161–66

—Eclogues, Golden Age in, 131 – 33

—Georgics: and Horace ’s second Epode,

299n179; Iron Age in, 114 – 15, 128;

natural time in, 207; parapegmata

and, 298n174; sexuality in, 270n116

Visigoths, sack of Rome, 104

Visual arts, Greek, 241n7

Volscian war, synchronism with Persian

Wars, 27, 38

Walbank, F. W., 48, 90

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, 296n140;

“Time for Augustus,” xiii

Washington, George: birthday of, 151,

156–57

Watson, L. C., 299n179

West, Martin, 219n12, 277n68

White, Hayden, 79, 245n54

Wilcox, D. J., 15, 19, 218n1, 221nn32,35

Williams, Bernard, 245n61; on Thucy-

dides, 244n34; Truth and Truthfulness,

75–76

Williams, Raymond, 113, 211

Williamson, C., 288n27

Winter solstice, beginning of year at, 204

Wiseman, T. P., 21

Wodehouse, P. G., 13

Woodman, A. J. and Martin, R. H.,

261n16

General Index. 359