The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the FastiThis book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts.
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Contents
Times Social Dimension | 1 |
Towards an Early History of the Roman Calendar | 23 |
The Introduction of the Republican Calendar | 38 |
The Written Calendar | 44 |
The Lex Acilia and the Problem of Pontifical Intercalation | 68 |
Reinterpretation of the fasti in the Temple of the Muses | 87 |
From Republic to Empire | 109 |
The Disappearance of Marble Calendars | 140 |
Calendar Monopoly and Competition between Calendars | 146 |
The Calendar in the Public Realm | 175 |
Abbreviations | 183 |
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