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23990 results in Ancient history

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  • Ten - Modelling Demography and Consumption

  • Gabriele Cifani
  • Book:
    The Origins of the Roman Economy
    Published online:
    18 February 2021
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 117-128

  • Summary

    The annalistic account of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, as reported by Dionysius, attributes the institutionalisation of a registry system in Roman society to Servius Tullius. Under this system, births and deaths were recorded by means of fixed votive offerings (sums of money) made to the sanctuaries of Juno Lucina and Libitina respectively, and the passage from adolescence to manhood was recorded by a similar payment to the Temple of Juventas. The total amount of the offerings would have given a precise record of yearly births and deaths in archaic Rome, as well as the number of young men becoming eligible for military service. In addition, every citizen would have given a monetary valuation of his own property through a public oath.

  • One - Introduction

  • Aaron A. Burke, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Book:
    The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East
    Published online:
    23 January 2021
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    1. Introduction: Amorites, Their Legacy, and the Study of Identity

    The legacy of Amorites in the ancient Near East is discussed as well as the various approaches employed in this study for addressing the archaeological, historical, and iconographic evidence. The purpose, scope, and aims of the discussions of discrete historical moments that compose this work are outlined.

  • Twelve - The Economics of the Early Calendar

  • Gabriele Cifani
  • Book:
    The Origins of the Roman Economy
    Published online:
    18 February 2021
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 157-171

  • Summary

    The system of festivals in the pre-Julian, or “Numan”, calendar represents one of the most important sources of information for our knowledge of archaic Roman culture. Among the most significant documents are fragments of works by Varro, the Fasti by Ovid and above all the epigraphic evidence, datable to around 60 BC, from the only calendar known to precede Julius Caesar’s reform, the Fasti Antiates maiores. In this text, which was found at Antium, a series of festivals from before the age of the Tarquinii is listed using capital letters, while, later cults, including that of Jupiter Capitolinus which was certainly introduced in the age of Tarquinii, are rigorously reported using lower case letters. Possible dating of the archaic calendar to the decemvirate period is therefore less credible, while the reforms introduced in the age of Appius Claudius would only have been concerned with the nundinal cycle and an updated definition of the fasti dies.

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