Caesar's calendar : ancient time and the beginnings of history / Denis Feeney.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and indexes.

Synchronising times I : Greece and Rome -- Synchronising times II : West and East, Sicily and the Orient -- Transitions from myth into history I : the foundations of the city -- Transitions from myth into history II : ages of gold and iron -- Years, months, and days I : eras and anniversaries -- Years, months, and days II : the grids of the Fasti.

"In this book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. Feeney welcomes the reader into a world where time was moveable and changeable and where simply ascertaining a date required a complex and often contentious cultural narrative." "He investigates the pertinent systems, including the Roman calendar and its near perfect method of capturing the progress of natural time; the annual rhythm of consular government; the plotting of sacred time onto sacred space; the forging of chronological links to the past; and, above all, the experience of empire, by which the Romans meshed the city state's concept of time with those of the foreigners they encountered to establish a new worldwide web of time. Because this web of time was Greek before the Romans transformed it, the book is also a study in the cross-cultural interaction between the Greek and Roman worlds."--BOOK JACKET.