List of ancient Roman ''fasti''

Fragments of the Fasti Praenestini

Ancient Roman fasti were calendars (fasti) that recorded religious observances and officially commemorated events. They were typically displayed in the form of an inscription at a prominent public location such as a major temple; several of these fasti survive, but in states of varying fragmentation. Some calendars are preserved as papyri or manuscripts.

One of the original purposes of Roman calendars was to mark the religious and legal status of each day, by means of letters such as C, F, and NP. By the late 2nd century AD, extant calendars no longer show days marked with these letters, probably in part as a result of calendar reforms undertaken by Marcus Aurelius.[1] A feriale is a listing only of dates for religious or official observances, not a day-by-day accounting of time.[2] The words fasti and feriale are not always distinct in usage, and both fasti and ferialia are listed below.

Extant fasti include those known by the following names:

Fragment of the Fasti Guidizzolenses

See also

References

  1. Michele Renee Salzman, On Roman Time: The Codex-calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 1990), pp. 17, 122.
  2. Jörg Rüpke, The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti, translated by David M.B. Richardson (Blackwell, 2011, originally published 1995 in German), p. 155; Duncan Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West (Brill, 2004), vol. 3, pt. 3, p. 229.
  3. Jörg Rüpke, Religion of the Romans (Polity Press, 2007, originally published in German 2001), p. 189.
  4. Mary Beard, J.A. North, and S.R.F. Price, Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook (Cambridge University Press, 1998), vol. 2, pp. 61–62.
  5. Robert E.A. Palmer, "Studies of the Northern Campus Martius in Ancient Rome," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 80.2 (1990), p. 20.
  6. Duncan Fishwick The Imperial Cult in the Latin West (Brill, 1991), vol. II.1, p. 510.
  7. Rüpke, The Roman Calendar, p. 103.
  8. A. B. Bosworth, "Augustus and August: Some Pitfalls of Historical Fiction," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 86 (1982), pp. 158–162.
  9. Fishwick, Imperial Cult, vol. II.1, p. 493.
  10. Jörg Rüpke, Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), p. 133.
  11. Rüpke, The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine, p. 10.
  12. Mario Torelli, Typology and Structure of Roman Historical Reliefs (University of Michigan Press, 1992), p. 84, note 7.
  13. Christer Bruun, "Civic Rituals in Imperial Ostia," in Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5–7, 2007) (Brill, 2009), pp. 134–135.
  14. Carole E. Newlands, Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell University Press, 1995), p. 29.
  15. Marina Piranomonte, "Religion and Magic at Rome," in Magical Practice in the Latin West. Papers from the International Conference Held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.–1 Oct. 2005 (Brill, 2010), p. 192.
  16. Salzman, On Roman Time, p. 24.
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