CLAS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Water Clock, Quintilis, Naturales Quaestiones

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS202
• Professor: Daniel Hutter

Document Summary

Augustan writers (golden age: covers the reign of augustus, tiberius and caligula, maecenas was the greatest patron of the time. Juvenal: last great roman satirist, (cid:862)bread a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ir(cid:272)uses(cid:863, (cid:862)who (cid:449)ill guard the guards the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es(cid:863, only made fun of the dead, all authors compared the good rule of the senate/republic with that of some emperors. Philegelos (cid:862)the laughter-lo(cid:448)er(cid:863: oldest existing collection of jokes, attributed to hierokles and philagrios. Roman calendar: republican calendar: lunar month (29 days); no weeks, 1st day = kalends, 5th day = nones, 13th = ides. In march, july, october and may, days are pushed back by 2. Julian calendar: caesar"s (cid:272)ale(cid:374)dar: (cid:455)ear of 3(cid:1010)(cid:1009) da(cid:455)s (cid:271)(cid:455) eg(cid:455)ptia(cid:374) astronomer, sosigenes, calendar used to begin in march. July = julius caesar (was once quintilis, the (cid:862)fifth(cid:863): august = augustus (was once sextilis, the (cid:862) i(cid:454)th(cid:863), unlucky days like anniversaries of disasters were not open for business, market day was every 8 days.