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Down to the hour : short time in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East /
"Clock time", with all its benefits and anxieties, is often viewed as a "modern" phenomenon, but ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures also had tools for marking and measuring time within the day and wrestled with challenges of daily time management. This book brings to...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Collection: | Time, astronomy, and calendars ;
v. 8. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Sun and stars : astronomical timekeeping in ancient Egypt / Sarah L. Symons
- The ancient Egyptian water clock between religious significance and scientific functionality / Alexandra von Lieven and Anette Schomberg
- Short time in Mesopotamia / John Steele
- Greco-Roman sundials : precision and displacement / Alexander Jones
- Cosmology and ideal society : the division of the day into hours in Plato's Laws / Barbara M. Sattler
- Diurnal selves in ancient Rome / James Ker
- Time, punctuality, and chronotopes : concepts and attitudes concerning short time in ancient Rome / Anja Wolkenhauer
- Short time in Greco-Roman astrology / Stephan Heilen
- Hourly timekeeping and the problem of irregular fevers / Kassandra Jackson Miller.