Time in written spaces

Time in written form pervades our social existence. From the daily news, whether on the web or in print, to wall calendars in our homes or offices, which tell us what day it is; from personal watches or cellphones to public clocks, which tell us what hour it is; from small change in our purses or pockets to use-by dates on our groceries, which remind us when things were made; and from personal or recreational diaries to bus and train timetables, which tell us when we did or should do things, we are constantly made aware of time and its passing in the modern world. And because of the means by which we tell the time in these contexts, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the ancient world did not have such persistent reminders as well. Yet archaeology and literature combine to tell us differently. In this chapter I wish to discuss aspects of this combination, focusing on time in written forms, on the collocation of the mechanisms of time and writing, and on the spatial setting in which these are found, all of which demonstrate a politicization of time in the late Republic and early Empire

Book review. Cartographies of Time: a history of the timeline

A review of 'Cartographies of Time: a history of the timeline' by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. (272pp. ISBN: 9781568987637)

Pedagogía del poder imperial en el espacio rural bético a través de los miliarios

Desde los estudios de Pierre Salama se vienen considerado los miliarios como inscripciones que emanan y expresan el poder imperial. No obstante, el estudio de estos epígrafes viarios ha supuesto, por lo general, un interés epigráfico y por otro, un uso como prueba para completar lagunas en los trazados viarios. El objetivo de esta investigación es unir su información geográfica aproximada con su carácter como elemento de poder para poder dibujar en el mapa bético los marcados espacios de poder y las implicaciones administrativas que tuvieron este tipo de inscripciones con el fin de proponer una función principal propagandística que supera incluso la informativa, como tradicionalmente se ha venido indicando.Since the studies of Pierre Salama, milestones have been considered as inscriptions which exude and express the imperial power. Notwithstanding, the studies on the Epigraphy of this road have been generally seen firstly from an epigraphical view and secondly, as a proof to fill in the gap for road system. The aim of this research is linking the geographical information with their characteristic as element of power. This allows me to draw the spaces of power in the province of Baetica and to delve into administrative implications of these inscriptions. It also allows me to propose propaganda as their main function, more than their traditional consideration as an informative element

Una inscripció de Pere Miquel Carbonell sobre els trofeus de Pompeu

En aquest article fem la presentació d’una inscripció, que fou transcrita per l’humanista català Pere Miquel Carbonell, a finals del segle XV. La inscripció ha estat escassament citada i sovint rebutjada pels autors que han tractat la situació i estructura dels trofeus de Pompeu aixecats en els límits de la Gàl·lia amb la Hispània Citerior. En l’article proposem afegir aquest nou testimoni, tot veient-ne la seva tradició (quasi mínima) en historiadors posteriors així com la comparació amb altres testimonis anteriors i posteriors que parlen d’aquest monument. Revisem aquest rebuig, a la vegada que es qüestiona el paper dels Pirineus com a frontera des de la creació de les províncies hispanes fins al segle I aC. Per les característiques del text, proposem que fos part d’unes Res Gestae de Pompeu Magne i que constituís un precedent o un model que posteriorment utilitzà Agust.In this article we present an inscription, transcribed by the Catalan humanist Pere Miquel Carbonell at the end of the fifteenth century. This inscription has been little cited and often rejected by authors who have worked on the situation and structure of the Pompey trophies erected on the limits between Gaul and Hispania Citerior. Here we propose to add this new testimony, taking into account its tradition (almost minimal) in later historians as well as comparing it with previous and later testimonies on the same monument. We revise its rejection and also question the role of the Pyrenees as a border since the creation of the Hispanic provinces until the first century AC. The characteristics of the text lead us to propose that it formed part of a Res Gestae by Pompeius Magnus, constituting a precedent ormodel later used by August

Ressenyes

Index de les obres ressenyades: Eva TOBALINA ORAÁ, El cursus honorum senatorial durante la época Julio-Claudi

El proconsulado de la Bética en el cursus honorum senatorial

Este trabajo pretende demostrar que la consideración de la provincia Bética en el conjunto del imperio romano era muy superior a lo pensado hasta ahora. Durante mucho tiempo se ha creído que el ámbito de jurisdicción del senado estaba destinado a aquellos miembros del ordo que no contaban, o con la confianza del emperador, o con apoyos sólidos entre sus allegados, de tal manera que el destinar a un senador de rango pretorio al gobierno de una provincia proconsular podía interpretarse como un frenazo en su carrera. Sin embargo, se puede demostrar que el gobierno de la Bética no suponía ningún frenazo en el cursus de un senador, ni tampoco que esta provincia, como podía ser el caso de otras, estuviera infravalorada, de tal modo que su gobierno no fuera atractivo para la promoción de un senador.This paper aims to demonstrate that the status of the province of Baetica within the Roman Empire was much greater than has previously been believed. For a long time it has been thought that the sphere of jurisdiction of the senate was for those members of the ordo who lacked either the emperor's backing or the solid support of their allies, so that if a senator of praetorian rank was designated to govern a proconsular province, this was considered an obstacle to his career. None the less, it can be shown that government of Baetica did not represent a hiatus in a senator's cursus, and this province was not undervalued, as might have been the case with others whose government was not attractive to senators desiring promotion

Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum Graecarumque. Autoren- und Sachregister der ‚Thesauren-Corpora’ (Venedig 1732-1737) (FONTES 4)

In den Jahren von 1732 bis 1737 erschien in Venedig in zweiunddreißig Folio-Bänden (dreiunddreißig, zählt man den Index-Band mit) die umfangreichste jemals veröffentlichte Zusammenstellung von Schriften zur antiken (Sach-)Kultur: Wiederabgedruckt wurden neben einigen Texten der Spätantike und Frührenaissance in großer Vollständigkeit die antiquarischen Werke des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Damit vereinte dieser monumentale Thesaurus antiquitatum in sich die älteren Sammelwerke zur römischen Antike des Johannes Georgius Graevius (Thesaurus antiquitatum romanarum, 12 Bde., Utrecht 1694-1699, 2. Aufl. Venedig 1732-1737), zur griechischen Antike des Jacobus Gronovius (Thesaurus Graecarum antiquitatum, 13 Bde., Lyon 1697-1702, 2. Aufl. Venedig 1732-1737), sowie die Ergänzungsbände des Albert Henrik de Sallengre (Novus Thesaurus antiquitatum Romanarum, 3 Bde., Den Haag 1716-1719, 2. Aufl. Venedig 1735) und Giovanni Poleni (Utriusque Thesauri antiquitatum Romanarum Graecarumque nova supplementa, 5 Bde., Venedig 1737). Die im Folgenden wiedergegebene alphabetischen Sach- und Autoren-Indices dieses Thesaurus erschließt die heute kaum mehr bekannte Fülle dieser antiquarischen Arbeiten und ihrer in vielen Fällen für Fragen der Bildkünste und Architektur zentralen Themen

<i>Libri</i> e <i>commentarii</i> sacerdotali nella storiografia contemporanea

Sommario: I. L’OTTOCENTO. – 1. Precisazione dei motivi che inducono ad escludere dalla trattazione la storiografia anteriore all’Ottocento. – 2. Le principali tesi relative alla distinzione tra libri e commentarii. – 3. Rifiuto della distinzione tra libri e commentarii come generi di documenti (per il contenuto). – 4. Progessiva affernazione delle tesi contrarie alla distinzione ed affievolirsi del dibattito sul contenuto dei libri e dei commentarii sacerdotali. – II. LA STORIOGRAFIA ODIERNA. – 1. Libri e commentarii sacerdotali negli studi giuridici. – 2. Cenni alla situazione delle altre discipline: filologia, storia , storia delle religioni. – 3. Autori che sostengono ancora la distinzione tra il contenuto dei libri e quello dei commentarii

Su alcuni proconsoli d’Asia all’epoca di Marco Aurelio (168-173): Kaisergeschichte e Kirchengeschichte tra fonti letterarie ed epigrafiche.

A confrontation between epigraphic and literary sources is necessary to reconstruct the proconsular list of Asia for the mid reign of Marcus Aurelius (168-173 AD): in those years the province Asia was directly involved in Marcus' wars against barbarian raiders, especially the bellum Germanicum et Sarmaticum on the Danube (169-175) and the raids of Costobocs in the Balkans and Bastarnae in Anatolia (170-171). Therefore the imperial government ordered supplementary recruitments and new taxes. At the same time, the New Prophecy of Montanus, an apocalyptic Christian movement, broke out in Phrygia and Lydia (171-172) and the bishop of Laodikeia on the Lykos, Sagaris, was sentenced to death. These were the main emergencies that the Roman proconsuls of Asia were requested to face in the early Seventies of the 2nd cent. AD