CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE THE POLITICS OF TEMPORA -- The date(s) of composition of the Fasti and the 'political context' -- Power and the calendar -- Multa exempla maiorum exolescentia: recuperating the past -- Exempla imitanda posteris: providing for the future -- Calendrical revisions and social control -- CHAPTER TWO PRAECEPTOR ANNI: THE CALENDRICAL MODEL AND THE FASTI 'S DIDACTIC PROJECT -- Poetry and the calendar-builders -- Reading the calendar -- Alter ut hic mensis, sic liber alter eat -- Series rerum -- CHAPTER THREE VENUS' MONTH -- "The poet and the month are yours . . ." -- 'Alma, fave', dixi 'geminorum mater Amorum' -- Almae matres -- Venus Verticordia and Fortuna Virilis -- Venus Verticordia and Venus Erycina -- Venus Verticordia and Magna Mater -- Magna Mater and Ceres -- Flora -- CHAPTER FOUR QUOSCUMQUE SACRIS ADDIDIT ILLE DIES: THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN HOLIDAYS -- Natalis Augusti -- Actian Apollo and the Augustalia -- Domus Augusta, Pax Augusta: January 11-30 -- Praeteriturus eram . . . : The death of Caesar -- Aufer, Vesta, diem: Resettling Vesta on April 28 -- CHAPTER FIVE LOOKING FORWARD TO JULY -- Whose majesty? (5.11-52) -- "The older god fell . . ." -- Concord comes at last (6.91-96) -- Starting with a glance back (the kalends of May) -- Aiming at kingship -- The young avenger -- Resurrecting the dead -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX.