Caesar's Calendar : Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History

by: Feeney, D.

Price: 38,00 EURO

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Caesar's calendar : ancient time and the beginnings of history

Author: D. C. Feeney

Summary:The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. Feeney welcomes the reader into a world where time was moveable and changeable and where simply ascertaining a date required a complex and often contentious cultural narrative. He investigates the pertinent systems, including the Roman calendar, which is still our calendar, and its near perfect method of capturing the progress of natural time; the annual rhythm of consular government; the plotting of sacred time onto sacred space; the forging of chronological links to the past; and, above all, the experience of empire, by which the Romans meshed the city-state's concept of time with those of the foreigners they encoun-tered and thereby established a worldwide web of time

Series:
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature, v. 65

xiv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:
Synchronising times I : Greece and Rome
Synchronising times II : West and East, Sicily and the Orient
Transitions from myth into history I : the foundations of the city
Transitions from myth into history II : ages of gold and iron
Years, months, and days I : eras and anniversaries
Years, months, and days II : the grids of the Fasti

Subjects:
Calendar, Roman
Calendrier romain
Chronologie romaine
Chronology, Roman
City and town life
City and town life Rome
Civilization Greek influences
Historiographie Rome
Historiography
Historiography Rome
Julianischer Kalender
Kalender
Kalendrar historia Rom
Manners and customs
Rome (Empire)
Rome Civilization Greek influences
Rome Historiography
Rome Social life and customs
Römisches Reich
Synchronisation
Synchronization
Temps Aspect politique Rome
Temps Aspect social Rome
Tid politiska aspekter Rom
Tid sociala aspekter Rom
Tideräkning
Time Political aspects
Time Political aspects Rome
Time Social aspects
Time Social aspects Rome
Vie urbaine Rome
Zeit

The Gorgon's Severed Head : Studies in Alcestis, Electra and Phoenissae

by: Luschnig, C.A.E.

• ISBN-13: 9789004103825 / 978-90-04-10382-5
• ISBN-03: 9004103821 / 90-04-10382-1
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1995

Price: 124,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Caesar's Calendar : Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History

by: Feeney, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780520251199 / 978-0-520-25119-9
• ISBN-03: 0520251199 / 0-520-25119-9
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 2007

Price: 38,00 EURO

1 copy in stock