Calendar, Cult, and Law in Rome to the Age of Augustus

Name: Calendar, Cult, and Law in Rome to the Age of Augustus
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ISBN: 9781009623223

Daniel J. Gargola (University of Kentucky)

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Cambridge University Press
19 February 2026

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; History of religion; Time (chronology), time systems & standards

Rome's calendar often falls into the background in studies of republican political, legal, and religious practices. Its relationship to celestial phenomena is usually unexamined and modernizing assumptions are made about its regularity of operations and the advantages of Caesar's reform. In this book, Daniel Gargola clarifies its relationship to celestial phenomena and reveals the extent to which celestial references permeated public cult; he also demonstrates that the competent authorities often intervened in its operations in order to accommodate other concerns. The calendar also provided the temporal framework for the regulation of public and cultic activities and thus had a central role in Roman law. Roman writers attempted to bring clarity to the norms involving the calendar, and their efforts have often influenced modern attempts to study it. Nevertheless, the complexity of public and cultic life undermined these attempts and Romans always had to navigate between competing norms.

By: Daniel J. Gargola (University of Kentucky)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 611g
ISBN: 9781009623223
ISBN 10: 1009623222
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

DANIEL J. GARGOLA is Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. He is also the author of Lands, Laws, and Gods: Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome (1995) and The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and its Spaces (2017).