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Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-90-04-37347-1
Verlag: Brill
Erscheinungstermin: 12.12.2019
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"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 together for the first time perspectives on the interplay between short-term timekeeping technologies and their social contexts in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. Its contributions denaturalize modern-day concepts of clocks, hours, and temporal frameworks; describe some of the timekeeping solutions used in antiquity; and illuminate the diverse factors that affected how individuals and communities structured their time.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789004373471
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-90-04-37347-1
  • Verlag: Brill
  • Erscheinungstermin: 12.12.2019
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
  • Serie: Time, Astronomy, and Calendars
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 540 g
  • Seiten: 300
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 236 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Introduction

1 Sun and Stars: Astronomical Timekeeping in Ancient Egypt

Sarah L. Symons

2 The Ancient Egyptian Water Clock between Religious Significance and Scientific Functionality

Alexandra von Lieven and Anette Schomberg

3 Short Time in Mesopotamia

John Steele

4 Greco-Roman Sundials: Precision and Displacement

Alexander Jones

5 Cosmology and Ideal Society: the Division of the Day into Hours in Plato’s Laws

Barbara M. Sattler

6 Diurnal Selves in Ancient Rome

James Ker

7 Time, Punctuality, and Chronotopes: Concepts and Attitudes Concerning Short Time in Ancient Rome

Anja Wolkenhauer

8 Short Time in Greco-Roman Astrology

Stephan Heilen

9 Hourly Timekeeping and the Problem of Irregular Fevers

Kassandra Jackson Miller

Index