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The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine

Name: The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine
Author: Jörg Rüpke

Time, History, and the Fasti

Jörg Rüpke

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John Wiley & Sons

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Altertum

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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

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(Journal of Roman Studies, 1 August 2013)
"This book is a very welcome addition to the study of Roman time. R. has long stood in the top tier of scholars working on the Roman calendar. This book is destined to become an indispensable resource for scholars and students wishing to understand the origins and development of the Roman calendar as a mechanism for marking time, but more particularly as a social construct at the mercy of the political powers of the time."

- Denis Feeney, Princeton University
"It is excellent to see an updated and revised translation of Jörg Rüpke's fundamentally important study of the Roman calendar, one which keeps alive its profound learning and provocative originality."

- Clifford Ando, University of Chicago
"At last, thanks to Jörg Rüpke and David Richardson, we have a proper modern, historical account of the Roman calendar. A thoroughly revised and updated translation of Rüpke's earlier work, this work affects our understanding of virtually every activity at Rome mediated by time."

- John North, London University College
"Rüpke's Roman Calendar offers a rich critique of received ideas about republican attitudes to time and the evolution of the calendar; it will surely provoke much radical re-thinking on major problems."

- Karl Galinsky, University of Texas
"This is an excellent abridgment of Rüpke's standard work Kalender und Öffentlichkeit. In this historical survey, Rüpke discusses not only the technical details of the evolving Roman calendar but also its significance in the political and historical setting. The book is an essential resource for anyone interested in Roman civilization."

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