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- Buy It NowCaesar's Calendar: Ancient Time And The Beginnings Of History Volume 65
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520258010
ISBN-139780520258013
eBay Product ID (ePID)66175026
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCaesar's Calendar : Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History
SubjectHistoriography, Ancient / General, Engineering (General), Ancient / Rome, History & Theory, Time, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, History
AuthorDenis Feeney
SeriesSather Classical Lectures
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2006-023846
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"As [Feeney's] excellent book [underlines], the most lasting achievement of Caesar was. . . the calendar that is still used, throughout the west."--New York Review of Books, As [Feeney's] excellent book [underlines], the most lasting achievement of Caesar was. . . the calendar that is still used, throughout the west., "As [Feeney's] excellent book [underlines], the most lasting achievement of Caesar was. . . the calendar that is still used, throughout the west."-- New York Review of Books
Series Volume Number65
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal529/.30937
Table Of ContentList 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
SynopsisThe 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.
LC Classification NumberCE46.F44 2008
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