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

Zusatztext "As [Feeney's] excellent book [underlines]! the most lasting achievement of Caesar was. . . the calendar that is still used! throughout the west." Informationen zum Autor Denis Feeney is Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University and was the 2004 Sather Lecturer at the University of California! Berkeley. His books include Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures! Contexts! and Beliefs (1998) and The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition (1991). Klappentext "Among the many great strengths of Feeney's Caesar's Calendar are the ease and elegance with which the author makes an enormous amount of specialized material accessible to a wide audience and engages strikingly with ancient and modern science and non-classical cultural studies as well as with current trends in classical scholarship."—Donald Mastronarde, author of Euripides: Medea "Extraordinarily ambitious and brilliantly realized."—Ellen Oliensis, author of Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority Zusammenfassung 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. This book examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Synchronizing Times I: Greece and Rome 2. Synchronizing Times II: West and East! Sicily and the Orient 3. Transitions from Myth into History I: The Foundations of the City 4. Transitions from Myth into History II: Ages of Gold and Iron 5. Years! Months! and Days I: Eras and Anniversaries 6. Years! Months! and Days II: The Grids of the Fasti Epilogue Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: D Feeney, D. C. Feeney, Denis Feeney, Feeney Denis
• Verlag: University Of California Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.01.2009
• EAN: 9780520258013
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25801-3
• Seiten: 386
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Sather Classical Lectures; Sather Classical Lectures
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Physik, Astronomie > Allgemeines, Lexika; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, SCIENCE / Time, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Time (chronology), time systems & standards, Time (chronology), time systems and standards