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. |