Calendar, Cult, and Law in Rome to the Age of Augustus
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2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009623223 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
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A full study of the Roman calendar which reassesses three key issues: the relationship between the calendar of republican Roman and celestial phenomena; its core significance in cult and law; and its relationship to Caesar's reformed calendar and the context of this reform.
Rome's calendar often falls into the background in studies of republican political, legal, and religious practices. Its relationship to celestial phenomena is usually unexamined and modernizing assumptions are made about its regularity of operations and the advantages of Caesar's reform. In this book, Daniel Gargola clarifies its relationship to celestial phenomena and reveals the extent to which celestial references permeated public cult; he also demonstrates that the competent authorities often intervened in its operations in order to accommodate other concerns. The calendar also provided the temporal framework for the regulation of public and cultic activities and thus had a central role in Roman law. Roman writers attempted to bring clarity to the norms involving the calendar, and their efforts have often influenced modern attempts to study it. Nevertheless, the complexity of public and cultic life undermined these attempts and Romans always had to navigate between competing norms.
Rome's calendar often falls into the background in studies of republican political, legal, and religious practices. Its relationship to celestial phenomena is usually unexamined and modernizing assumptions are made about its regularity of operations and the advantages of Caesar's reform. In this book, Daniel Gargola clarifies its relationship to celestial phenomena and reveals the extent to which celestial references permeated public cult; he also demonstrates that the competent authorities often intervened in its operations in order to accommodate other concerns. The calendar also provided the temporal framework for the regulation of public and cultic activities and thus had a central role in Roman law. Roman writers attempted to bring clarity to the norms involving the calendar, and their efforts have often influenced modern attempts to study it. Nevertheless, the complexity of public and cultic life undermined these attempts and Romans always had to navigate between competing norms.
DANIEL J. GARGOLA is Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He is also the author of Lands, Laws, and Gods: Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome (1995) and The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and its Spaces (2017).
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. The Calendar and the Heavens; 2. Historiography, Antiquarianism, and the Calendar; 3. The Reform of the Late Fourth Century; 4. The Management of Intercalation; 5. The Republic and the Year; 6. Weighing the Days; 7. Caesar, Augustus, and Their Calendar; Conclusion; Bibliography, Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781009623223 / 9781009623223 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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