The Ordered Day : Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome /

"Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture-and beyond.How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same 24 hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ker, James, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Time > Social aspects.
Time > Political aspects.
Time perception.
Manners and customs.
Chronology, Roman.
SCIENCE / History.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Time perception > Rome.
Time > Political aspects > Rome.
Time > Social aspects > Rome.
Rome (Empire)
Rome > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Ordering History
  • In Search of Palamedes
  • The Long-Legged Fly
  • Telling Roman Time
  • Part II: Ordering Lives
  • Days in the Life
  • Three Patterns to Live By
  • Epicurean Days? Cicero and Horace
  • Literary Days: Martial and Pliny the Younger
  • Today in Retrospect: Seneca and Marcus Aurelius
  • Part III: Ordering Knowledge
  • Christian Roman Days
  • La Vie Quodidienne a Rome
  • Reading Roman Days in Modern Times.

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