1. Time's Social Dimension

  1. Jörg Rüpke

Published Online: 21 MAR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444396539.ch1

Book Title

The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History and the Fasti

The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History and the Fasti

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Rüpke, J. (2011) Time's Social Dimension, in The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History and the Fasti, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444396539.ch1

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 21 MAR 2011
  2. Published Print: 1 APR 2011

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780470655085

Online ISBN: 9781444396539

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Keywords:

  • time's social dimension, ‘calendar’ - document graphic text, particular look and particular function;
  • calendars, in every culture - structures defined by time and space;
  • history of Roman calendar - through centuries and revolutions;
  • ‘self-control of people in conformity with time’ - ‘the symbol of inescapable and all-embracing constraint’;
  • symbols of time, and pressure of ‘object adequacy’ - history of calendar linked to history of measurement of time and observation of natural objects;
  • Roman calendar, problem of objectivity - in structuring of time;
  • actual societies, analysis of competing calendars - relationships unclear;
  • calendars, in city of Rome - its earliest period to attention it received in the present;
  • earliest Roman calendar systems, and reconstruction - Late Republican and Imperial Period;
  • actual graphic models, calendar production in Augustan age - and conception of fasti
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