Fasti
In
Public business, including the official business of the
The yearly records of the fasti encouraged the writing of history in the form of chronological annales, "annals", which in turn influenced the development of Roman historiography.
Etymology
Fasti is the plural of the Latin adjective fastus, most commonly used as a
Roman official chronicles
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Fasti Magistrales, Annales or Historici, were concerned with the several festivals, and everything relating to religious practice and the
Fasti consulares
Fasti consulares were official chronicles in which years were denoted by the respective
Discovery
The fasti consulares were discovered as 30 marble fragments in the forum. With them were 26 fragments of Acta Triumpharum, since called the fasti triumphales. Both lists were restored as distinct records. The restoration was based nearly entirely on the observations of Onofrio Panvinio and Pirro Ligorio, who were standing at the top of the trench in which a portion of wall was showing, featuring inscriptional material between pilasters. They conferred with Michelangelo. Pope Paul III had authorized the mining of stone for St. Peter's in 1540 and Michelangelo was in fact protestingly working on its design also. The pope was following the widespread convention that prevailed in the Renaissance of ripping up the structures of the past to reuse in building structures they considered even more magnificent. The scholars were collaborating to save what they could.
A resident colony of quarrymen did not pause in the slightest but went on dismantling buildings. All trace of structures in that part of the forum vanished between August 15 and September 14, 1546. The stone was sold to cutters for reuse or to lime burners for the creation of cement. None of these proceedings were in any way archaeological. Cardinal Farnese assigned the scholars to watch the diggings. Collecting a team they moved swiftly to rescue what they could, sinking tunnels to the side to search for fragments. Subsequently, more fragments turned up embedded in buildings then in use, showing that the area had been less intensely mined previously, and casting doubt of the location of the original source of the fragments.[5]
It has been estimated that the consular lists were in four entablatures several feet high: I covering AUC 1-364; II, 365-461; III, 462-600; IV, 601-745, running to 766 in the margin. They were not published, however, as two lists; instead, Marliani in 1549 (first publication, Rome), Sigonius in 1550 (Modena), Robortelli in 1555 (Venice) and others chose to combine the information into a unified list, which was carried forward under the name fasti capitolini. The editors took certain freedoms, such as filling in missing magistrates from other records as they thought best and filling in missing dates AUC to give the appearance of a continuous yearly chronicle, at the same time concealing the problems. Typically representations under the name capitolini are not that. There were in fact two different original lists placed under that name to which were added fragments found in 1816-1818, 1872–1878 and a final one from the
I under Fragmenta Quae Dicuntur Capitolini, "Fragments Called Capitolini" and Cetera Quae Supersunt Fragmenta, "Other Remaining Fragments."Content
The unified list states the magistrates for each AUC from the first year of the first king to the death of Augustus. The marble entablatures were erected at the order of Augustus, based on information available to the Romans then, although the nature and validity of this information remains unknown. The degree of detail suggests that they were based on previous republican chronicles. The identification of their ancient location is controversial. The two theories are that they were in or part of the regia, or palace, of the College of Pontiffs, or that they were on a commemorative arch Augustus had constructed.
The fasti state a list of kings followed by the republican consuls for each year, with the magistri equitum and the tribuni militares for years in which these magistrates were eponymous instead of consuls; that is, once the practice of naming the year after the heads of state began, there had to be a head of state whether king, dictator, consul, master or tribune, regardless of what body held the power. The list features multiple dating schemes. To the right are years from the beginning of the republic preceded by an. or ann. for anno, "in the year." To the left every ten years is a numeral stating the AUC year starting with CCXC (the editors typically fill out these schemes; the list is seldom quoted as it is). The length of reign is given for the kings (the sum does not match the first republican AUC). In addition 5-year lustrations ("purgation", a ceremony cleansing the city of sin) and the censors conducting them are stated, which list is sometimes called the fasti censorii by moderns and stated as a third fasti capitolini.[8]
Feeney argues that the multiple scheme is evidence that the fasti were Augustan rather than republican. The kings are given precedence at the top and the AUC at the left as though they were superimposed on a formerly republican fasti. Moreover, the 5-year lustra date to 28 BC when the temple of Mars Ultor ("Mars the Avenger"), the imperial god, was constructed and took precedence over the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline. After that time the emperor must be one of the censors, who now presided over banging in the yearly nail at Mars Ultor instead of Jupiter (the setting of this nail marked the transition of the year).[9]
Dating
The republican dates given to the right are those of the
Solinus observed that Gaius Pompeius Gallus and Quintus Verranius were consuls in Olympiad 207.1, and that this year was 801 AUC, counting from the foundation of Rome at Olympiad 7.1. By modern calculation this is 49 AD. He was relying on the official dating scheme, which must have been the fasti consulares. In Varro's chronology this is AUC 802. Simple subtraction shows that AUC 1 in Augustus' fasti is 753/752 BC. The fasti give to the start of the republic a date of AUC 244 (510 BCE), but some editors "correct" all the AUC to Varronian. Similarly the fasti run to the death of Augustus in 13 AD (14 in the Varronian). This is not a difference in the starting date of the republic or the year of Augustus' death, which remain in the same years relative to surrounding events in either case; instead, the year of AUC 1 differs.[11]
Fasti triumphales
The Fasti Triumphales contained a list in chronological order of persons who had obtained a triumph, together with the name of the conquered people. Fragments of such a list were found mixed in with the fragments of the fasti capitolini, were also restored by Michelangelo and are in the same room at the Palazzo dei Conservatori. The acta triumphorum were on four panels, I covering AUC 1-452; II, 453-532; III, 533-625 and IV, 628-735, ending in 19 BC. The triumphs begin with those of Romulus.[12]
The fragmentary Fasti Triumphales were unearthed together with the Fasti Capitolini, and partially restored. Renaissance antiquarian
Fasti Potentini
The Fasti Potentini is a list of consuls from Potentia in Lucania, and probably dating to the early second century. The Potentini gives a partial record of the consuls from AD 86 to 93, and from 112 to 116.
Priestly fasti
The Annales Pontificum or Annales maximi, "Annals of the Priests", were annually exhibited in public on a white table, on which the memorable events of the year, with special mention of the prodigies, were set down in abbreviated manner.[13] Other fasti sacerdotales ("priestly fasti") include the fasti augurales of the augurs.[citation needed]
Fasti Diurni
Fasti Diurni, divided into urbani and rustici, were a kind of official year-book, with dates and directions for religious ceremonies, court-days, market-days, divisions of the month, and the like. Until 304 BC the lore of the calendaria remained the exclusive and lucrative monopoly of the priesthood; but in that year
Extant fasti
A considerable number of fasti have been discovered. The
Modern fasti
In modern times the word fasti and its
In popular culture
The
See also
- Menologia rustica
- Chronography of 354
- Julian calendar
- List of Roman consuls
- Roman calendar
- Roman festivals
References
- ^ Cassell's Latin Dictionary. Cassell & Company, Limited. 1892. p. 218. Retrieved Mar 14, 2019.
- ^ a b Badian, E. "Fasti ROMAN CALENDAR". Britannica.com. Retrieved Mar 14, 2019.
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 192.
- ^ Beard, Mary Ritter (July 2003). "Picturing the Roman triumph: putting the Fasti Capitolini in context". Apollo.
- ^ Lanciani, Rodolfo Amadeo (1997–2009) [1899]. "Chapter 2: The New Discoveries of the Sacra Via". New Tales of Old Rome 1899–1901. Templeton Foundation Press. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
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- ^ Egbert, James Chidester (1896). Introduction to the study of Latin inscriptions. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company. p. 362.
- ^ Greswell (1854), p. 4.
- ^ Feeney (208), pp. 172-180.
- ^ Greswell (1854), pp. 31-32.
- ^ Greswell (1854), pp. 36-43.
- ^ Sandys (1927), p. 170.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 193.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 192–193.
- ^ "Scottish Ministers Online". Dwalker.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. 1929-10-02. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fasti". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 192–193. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Bibliography
- Feeney, Denis (2008). Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: ISBN 978-0-520-25119-9.
- Greswell, Edward (1854). Origines Kalendariae Italicae. Vol. I. Oxford: University Press.
- Hooke, Nathaniel (1823). "The Capitoline Marbles; or, Consular Calendars: an Ancient Monument". The Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth Illustrated with Maps. Vol. VI (new ed.). London: C & J Rivington, etc. pp. 369–484.
- Sigonii, Caroli. Fasti Consulares ac Triumphi Acti a Romulo Rege usque as Ti. Caesarem. Eisusdem in Fastos et Triumphos, Id Est in Universam Romanam Historiam Commentarius (in Latin). Venetiis, MDLVI: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F.
- Sigonii, Caroli. Fasti Consulares ac Triumphi Acti a Romulo Rege usque as Ti. Caesarem. Eisusdem in Fastos et Triumphos, Id Est in Universam Romanam Historiam Commentarius (in Latin). Hanoviae, MDCIX: Apud Claudium Marnium & heredes Ioan. Aubrii.
External links
- "FastiOnline: A database of archaeological excavations since the year 2000". International Association for Classical Archaeology(AIAC). 2004–2007. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
- Publius Ovidius Naso (2004). "Fasti: on the Roman Calendar". Translated by Kline, A.S. Poetry in Translation. Retrieved 1 September 2009.
- Publius Ovidius Naso (2005). Ovid's Fasti (in Latin). Thomas Keightley (Contributor). Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
- Smith, Andrew (2011). "Fasti Capitolini". Attalus.
- Smith, Andrew. "Fasti Triumphales". Attalus. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
- Ramsay, William (2009) [1875]. "Fasti". In Smith, William; Thayer, William (eds.). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquity. London, Chicago: John Murray, University of Chicago.