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What are fasti?

What are fasti? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The calendar in Ancient Rome, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
  2. Records or registers of important events.
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The fasti were first exhibited in the Forum in 304 bc by the aedile Gnaeus Flavius, who broke a patrician monopoly on their use, and thereafter such lists became common.
With them were 26 fragments of Acta Triumpharum, since called the fasti triumphales.
The word fasti itself came to denote lists organized by time.
The kings are given precedence at the top and the AUC at the left as though they were superimposed on a formerly republican fasti.
Michelangelo, who designed the complex of three palaces on the hill, also restored the tables of the fasti.
Feeney argues that the multiple scheme is evidence that the fasti were Augustan rather than republican.

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