Caesar's Calendar (2007) by Feeney, Denis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Caesar's Calendar (2007)

ISBN-13: 9780520251199 --> Contents Illustrations Preface Introduction

Chapters

1 - Synchronizing Times I Greece and Rome

THE AXIS OF B.C./A.D. TIME WITHOUT B.C./A.D. EVERY DATE A SYNCHRONISM THE FIRST INSTRUMENTS OF GREEK SYNCHRONISM THE FIRST INSTRUMENTS OF ROMAN SYNCHRONISM SIMILE, SYNKRISIS, AND SYNCHRONISM A CICERONIAN TEST CASE: FROM “LIKE” TO “UNLIKE” THE CHRISTIAN SYNCHRONISTIC CHRONOGRAPHERS AULUS GELLIUS’S SYNCHRONISTIC CHAPTER: A PARADIGM CASE

2 - Synchronizing Times II - West and East, Sicily and the Orient

WHEN IS A SYNCHRONISM JUST A COINCIDENCE? SICILY AND MAINLAND GREECE: THE “COMMON CAUSE”? PUTTING SICILY ON THE GREEK TIME CHART: TIMAEUS OF TAUROMENIUM ROME, CARTHAGE, AND THE SICILIAN PARADIGM FROM SICILY TO THE OECUMENE INCORPORATING ASIA INCORPORATING THE WORLD

3 - Transitions from Myth into History I - The Foundations of the City

THE MYTH/HISTORY EVENT HORIZON STRATIFYING TIME: HOMER, HESIOD, ATHENS STRATIFYING TIME: HERODOTUS NEW KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS FOR A NEW TECHNE DIVIDING UP THE PAST THE FOUNDATION OF ROME: MYTH OR HISTORY? DOWN-DATING FROM MYTH TO HISTORY THE INTERVENTION OF TIMAEUS REFINING THE “HISTORICAL” REFOUNDING THE CITY: ENNIUS, LIVY, AND VIRGIL REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE

4 - Transitions from Myth into History II - Ages of Gold and Iron

ACROSS THE DIVIDE BEFORE THE FALL FROM BLISS TO MISERY TIME BEFORE THE FALL AN INSTANT OF RUPTURE THE CORRUPTING SEA CATULLUS’S CHRONOLOGICAL ANOMIE SENECA’S ROMAN IRON AGE RETURNING TO THE GOLDEN AGE METAPHOR OR BULLION? AN UNBRIDGEABLE DIVIDE

5 - Years, Months, and Days I - Eras and Anniversaries

STARTING POINTS ERAS ANNIVERSARIES OF YEARS THE SAECULUM ANNIVERSARIES OF DAYS THE MECHANICS OF ANNIVERSARY CALCULATION CALIBRATING ACROSS THE JULIAN REFORM THE BIRTHDAY AS AN ANNIVERSARY THE “SAME” DAY THE WORMHOLES OF VIRGIL’S FASTI REVOLUTIONS OF TIME

6 - Years, Months, and Days II - The Grids of the Fasti

TIME’S ARROW AND TIME’S CYCLE THE CONSULS’ YEARS AUGUSTUS’S CONSULAR YEARS AUGUSTUS’S CALENDRICAL YEAR THE YEARS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY A CALENDAR THAT MEASURES TIME THE HARMONIES OF CAESAR’S YEAR THE CIVIL AND THE NATURAL THE COUNTRY’S TIME AND THE CITY’S TIME THE CITY’S TIME AND THE EMPIRE’S TIME

Epilogue Notes

Introduction Chapter 1. chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6.

Bibliography Index Index Locorum