Research Catalog

Title

The Roman calendar from Numa to Constantine : time, history, and the fasti / Jörg Rüpke ; English translation by David M.B. Richardson.

Author

Rüpke, Jörg

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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Details

Description

vi, 226 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Uniform Title

Kalender und Öffentlichkeit. English

Alternative Title

Kalender und Öffentlichkeit.

Subject

• Calendar, Roman
• Chronology, Roman
• Festivals > Rome > History
• Rome > Religion
• Rome > Social life and customs

Note

• "Originally published in German under the title Kalender und Öffentlichkeit : die Geschichte der Repräsentation und religiösen Qualifikation von Zeit in Rom ... Walter de Gruyter ... 1995."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Time's social dimension -- Observations on the Roman fasti -- Towards an early history of the Roman calendar -- The introduction of the Republican calendar -- The written calendar -- The Acilian law and the problem of pontifical intercalation -- Reinterpretation of the fasti in the temple of the Muses -- From Republic to Empire -- The disappearance of marble calendars -- Calendar monopoly and competition between calendars -- The calendar in the public realm.

ISBN

• 9780470655085 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0470655089 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010042237

OCLC

• 670418662
• SCSB-11252626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library