Feeney, Denis: Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History.(Book review)

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Feeney, Dennis Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History Berkeley: University of California Press 386 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-520-25119-9 Publication Date: June 2007

This is an extraordinarily erudite volume on the Roman concept of time and how that relates to the concept of time in the rest of the ancient Mediterranean world. With more than one hundred pages of notes and bibliography, Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History is exceptionally well documented. Feeney uses fulsome examples of Latin and Greek texts with English ...

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