On Roman Time : The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity


Michele Renee. Salzman
Bok Engelsk 1991 · Electronic books.
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Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 1991.
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Part I. The Book: The Codex-Calendar of 354; I. INTRODUCTION: ANTECEDENTS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CODEX-CALENDAR OF 354; The Roman Calendar; Interpretations of the Paganism in the Calendar of 354; Principal Considerations of This Study; II. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE CODEX-CALENDAR OF 354; The Illustrated Sections of the Codex-Calendar of 354; The Unillustrated Sections of the Codex-Calendar of 354; Why Produce This Codex-Calendar?; Part II. The Calendar: A Roman Calendar for A.D. 354. - Appendix 7: A Fourth-Century Variant MythGeneral Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Illustrated Subjects; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; Z. - Group 3. Festivals and Cults Not Celebrated with Ludi and Circenses: Old and New CultsContinuity and Change: Calendars and Cults in the Late Empire-The Appeal of a Roman Holiday; Christian Emperors and Pagan Practices; Part III. The World: Roman Society and Religion and the Codex-Calendar of 354; V. CONSUETUDINIS AMOR: ROME IN THE MID-FOURTH CENTURY; Conflict or Accommodation: Two Theoretical Models; The Codex-Calendar of 354: The Contents and Context as Emblematic of Roman Society; The Evidence for Pagan-Christian Conflict; Other Evidence for Accommodation and Assimilation. - III. THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MONTHS IN THE CALENDAR OF 354Critical Approaches to the Illustrations; The Instruments of Transmission: The Manuscript Copies; Illustrations of Pagan Religious Festivals; Illustrations of Seasonal Themes; Illustrations Combining Seasonal and Festival Themes; Diachronic and Local Iconographic Variation in the Illustrations of the Months; IV. THE TEXT OF THE CALENDAR OF 354; Festivals, Holidays, and Cults in the Calendar of 354: An Overview; Group 1. The Imperial Cult; Group 2. Festivals and Cults Celebrated with Ludi and Circenses: The Most Important Cults. - VI. EPILOGUE: THE TURNING OF THE TIDEAntipagan Legislation and the Pagan Reactions in the Late Fourth Century; The Calendar of 354 and the Calendar of Polemius Silvius: Tradition and Innovation; Appendices; Appendix 1: The Manuscripts and Their Tradition; Appendix 2: Comparable Calendar Cycles from the Latin West; Appendix 3: Latin Poetry of the Months; Appendix 4: The Text of the Distichs (Anthologia Latina 665) in the Codex-Calendar of 354; Appendix 5: Dating the Codex-Calendar of 354; Appendix 6: Consular Dating as a Criterion for Source Analysis of the Codex-Calendar of 354. - Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance remain invaluable documents of Roman society and religion in the years between Constantine's conversion and the fall of the Western Empire.In this richly illustrated book, Michele Renee Salzman establishes that the traditions of Roman art and literature were still very much alive in the mid-
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