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Caesar's Calendar - Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Caesar's Calendar - Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Series: Sather Classical Lectures, 65
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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, erudite, 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 movable and changeable and where simply ascertaining a
date required a complex and often contentious cultural narrative.
In a style that is lucid, fluent, and graceful, 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 encountered to establish a new
worldwide web of time. Because this web of time was Greek before
the Romans transformed it, the book is also a remarkable study in
the cross-cultural interaction between the Greek and Roman worlds.
Feeney's skillful deployment of specialist material is engaging and
accessible and ranges from details of the time schemes used by
Greeks and Romans to accommodate the Romans' unprecedented rise to
world dominance to an edifying discussion of the fixed axis of
B.C./A.D., or B.C.E./C.E., and the supposedly objective "dates"
implied. He closely examines the most important of the ancient
world's time divisions, that between myth and history, and
concludes by demonstrating the impact of the reformed calendar on
the way the Romans conceived of time's recurrence. Feeney's
achievement is nothing less than the reconstruction of the Roman
conception of time, which has the additional effect of transforming
the way the way the reader inhabits and experiences time.
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