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    Calendar of the Roman Republic
    Calendar of the Roman Republic
    Calendar of the Roman Republic
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    Calendar of the Roman Republic

    By Agnes Kirsopp Michels

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    This book reconstructs the pre-Julian calendar of Rome on the basis of epigraphical and literary evidence, and analyzes its relation to the solar and lunar years. Mrs. Michels shows how the varied contents of the calendar were related to the political as well as to the religious life of Rome of the first century B.C. She traces the history of the calendar back to the fifth century, indicating the stages by which a single list of festivals may have developed into the complex document of the late republic. The Roman method of intercalation, the character of the days, and the history of the trinum nundinum are presented in appendices.

    Originally published in 1967.

    The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateDec 8, 2015
    ISBN9781400849789
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      This book covers the Roman Calendar (before Julius Caesar changed to the new 'Julian' Calendar). So it covers from the 5th century BC to the 1st century BC. It took a lot of research to learn enough to put together something so carefully written. Since the calendar was in the hands of certain priests, they could, and did, sometimes accept bribes to change which day was which. Yet with all those complications and exceptions, she has been able to work out what the calendar was like during that time frame (especially in the first century BC).This book would be aimed principally for scholars and others needing to check out some esoteric item to better understand something from history. For those of us with a hobby of calendrics and chronology, it is invaluable.Archaeology and related fields do keep finding new materials, so there are a few things that she would change - or add - if writing this now, but most have just verified what she has said, or proven to be an additional exception.

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