Rüpke The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine

Time, History, and the Fasti
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9652-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

This 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.
* Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religious history of the Roman calendar
* Provides a comprehensive historical and social contextualization of ancient calendars and chronicles
* Highlights the unique characteristics which are still visible in the most dominant modern global calendar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rüpke, Jörg

Weitere Mitwirkende

Richardson, David M. B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Map 1 Distribution of preserved calendars (or calendarfragments) of the fasti type from the first century BCE tothe fifth century CE.
Table 1 List of known copies of fasti.
1 Time's social dimension.
2 Observations on the Roman fasti.
2.1 A Republican version.
2.2 Forms and functions.
2.3 The fasti and the birth of Augustan epigraphy.
2.4 The question of the archetype.
3 Towards an early history of the Roman calendar.
3.1 Notions of a prehistoric calendar.
3.2 The structure of the month.
3.3 Market cycles.
3.4 Modes of dating.
4 The introduction of the Republican calendar.
4.1 Timing and motivation.
4.2 The character and significance of the reform.
5 The written calendar.
5.1 Gnaeus Flavius.
5.2 NP days and feast-names.
5.3 Cultic and linguistic details.
5.4 The purpose of the fasti.
5.5 The law of Hortensius.
5.6 Implications for the historiography of Roman religion.
5.7 Variants on stone and paper.
6 The Acilian law and the problem of pontificalintercalation.
6.1 The nature of the measures.
6.2 How to intercalate in a ritually correct manner?
6.3 Problems of intercalation.
6.4 Regulating intercalation by means of laws.
7 Reinterpretation of the fasti in the temple of theMuses.
7.1 Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, triumphator.
7.2 Temple dedications in the fasti.
7.3 Ennius.
7.4 All fasti are Fulvian fasti.
8 From Republic to Empire.
8.1 Caesar's reform of the calendar.
8.2 The calendar as collective memory.
8.3 Augustus and the power of dates.
8.4 The calendar as Roman breviary.
9 The disappearance of marble calendars.
10 Calendar monopoly and competition between calendars.
10.1 One calendar.
10.2 Coexisting and competing developments.
10.3 Eras.
10.4 The calculation of Easter.
10.5 Weekly cycles.
10.6 Fasti christiani?
11 The calendar in the public realm.
Abbreviations.
References.
Sources Index.
General Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jörg Rüpke is Fellow in Religious Studies at theMax Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt. His publicationsinclude Fasti sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish,and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC toAD 499 (trans. David Richardson, 2008), Religion of theRomans (2007), A Companion to Roman Religion (2007), andReligion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (co-editedwith C. Ando, 2006)
David M B Richardson has previously translated Fastisacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and ChristianReligious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499(Jörg Rüpke, 2008), and contributed to the Englishtranslation of Brill's New Pauly Encyclopaedia of theAncient World (2002 onwards).