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Author Salzman, Michele Renee.

Title On Roman time : the codex-calendar of 354 and the rhythms of urban life in late antiquity / Michele Renee Salzman.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 315 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Transformation of the classical heritage ; 17
Transformation of the classical heritage ; 17.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents The book : the codex-calendar of 354. Introduction : antecedents and Interpretations of the codex-calendar of 354 ; The Roman calendar ; Interpretations of the paganism in the calendar of 354 -- 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? -- The calendar : a Roman calendar for A.D. 354. The illustrations of the months in the calendar of 354 ; Critical 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 -- The text of the calendar of 354 -- Festivals, holidays, and cults in the calendar of 354 : an overview ; The imperial cult ; Festivals and cults celebrated with ludi and circenses : the most important cults ; Festivals and cults not celebrated with ludi and circenses : old and new cults ; Continuity and change : calendars and cults in the late empire--the appeal of a Roman holiday ; Christian emperors and pagan practices -- The world : Roman society and religion and the codex-calendar of 354. 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 accodmmodation and assimilation -- Epilogue : the turning of the tide ; Antipagan legislation and the pagan reactions in the late fourth century ; The calendar of 354 and the calendar of Polemius Silvius : tradition and innovation -- Appendices. The manuscripts and their tradition ; Comparable calendar cycles from the Latin west ; Latin poetry of the months ; The text of the distichs (anthologia latina 665) in the codex-calendar of 354 ; Dating the codex-calendar of 354 ; Consular dating as a criterion for source analysis of the codex-calendar of 354 ; A fourth-century variant myth.
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Subject Calendar, Roman.
Calendar, Roman.
Calendar, Roman.
Rome -- Social life and customs.
Rome (Empire)
Manners and customs.
Rome -- Religious life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Salzman, Michele Renee. On Roman time. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1990 0520065662 (DLC) 89005116 (OCoLC)19921445
ISBN 9780520909106 (electronic book)
0520909100 (electronic book)
0585139881 (electronic book)
9780585139883 (electronic book)
0520065662 (alkaline paper)
9780520065666 (alkaline paper)