Jörg Rüpke ; English translation by David M.B. Richardson
Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2011
vi, 226 p. :
ill. ;
26 cm
"Originally published in German under the title Kalender und Öffentlichkeit : die Geschichte der Repräsentation und religiösen Qualifikation von Zeit in Rom ... Walter de Gruyter ... 1995."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Time's social dimension -- Observations on the Roman fasti -- Towards an early history of the Roman calendar -- The introduction of the Republican calendar -- The written calendar -- The Acilian law and the problem of pontifical intercalation -- Reinterpretation of the fasti in the temple of the Muses -- From Republic to Empire -- The disappearance of marble calendars -- Calendar monopoly and competition between calendars -- The calendar in the public realm