Timeline for (How) did the Republican Romans refer to previous decades or centuries?
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| Oct 7, 2021 at 20:49 | comment | added | Mark Olson | That sounds plausible enough. You should add it to your answer. | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 17:17 | comment | added | James | Well, for what you understand as "Eras", they used common descriptions such as "during the Sulla dictatorship", or "during that war". Simple as that. They did not have an abstract, conceptualized and standard periodization of the past of their country, this is something only modern historians (and societies) do. As a society, they had their founding myths with timings already disputed back then (founding of Rome has 4 date proposals), and the common time references as mentioned. | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 16:19 | comment | added | Mark Olson | A very informative answer and I upvoted it, but it looks like it missed part of the question, that of eras: The 20's, the High Middle Ages, the Victorian era, the Antebellum, etc. (Perhaps the answer is that as far as we know they didn't use references like that or that the information is too fragmentary to generalize from.) | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 13:46 | comment | added | MCW♦ | !! good job!! Upvote | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 13:43 | history | edited | James | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2021 at 13:38 | history | answered | James | CC BY-SA 4.0 |