| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 315 pages) |
| Series |
The Transformation of the classical heritage ; 17 |
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Transformation of the classical heritage ; 17.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Calendar, Roman
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Calendar, Roman.
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SCIENCE -- Time.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Calendar, Roman
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Social life and customs
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Rome -- Religious life and customs
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Rome |
| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021700789 |
| ISBN |
9780520909106 |
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0520909100 |
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0585139881 |
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9780585139883 |
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9780520065666 |
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0520065662 |
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