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Overview"""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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kassandra J. Miller , Sarah SymonsPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 8 Weight: 0.616kg ISBN: 9789004373471ISBN 10: 9004373470 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 12 December 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsThe issues treated and questions posed are important, diverse and comprehensive. The contributors comprise ten experts in such different fields as literature, history, history of science, papyrology, and material culture of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. (...) It presents new insights and interesting research into the perspectives on the interplay between timekeeping technologies for short time intervals and their social contexts in the old high cultures of the Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. It is warmly recommended to everyone interested in ancient history and ancient astronomy or time keeping. - Lis Brack-Bernsen, University of Regensburg, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.11.44 The issues treated and questions posed are important, diverse and comprehensive. The contributors comprise ten experts in such different fields as literature, history, history of science, papyrology, and material culture of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. (...) It presents new insights and interesting research into the perspectives on the interplay between timekeeping technologies for short time intervals and their social contexts in the old high cultures of the Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. It is warmly recommended to everyone interested in ancient history and ancient astronomy or time keeping. - Lis Brack-Bernsen, University of Regensburg, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.11.44 Down to the hour is a valuable addition to the history of astronomy, introducing and discussing evidence for time keeping in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. It will be useful for readers interested in an individual era and period, but even more so for those who would like to get a comparative overview of time-keeping in various parts of antiquity. - Annette Imhausen, in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 2022 The issues treated and questions posed are important, diverse and comprehensive. The contributors comprise ten experts in such different fields as literature, history, history of science, papyrology, and material culture of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. (...) It presents new insights and interesting research into the perspectives on the interplay between timekeeping technologies for short time intervals and their social contexts in the old high cultures of the Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. It is warmly recommended to everyone interested in ancient history and ancient astronomy or time keeping. - Lis Brack-Bernsen, University of Regensburg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.11.44. Author InformationKassandra J. Miller, Ph.D. (2017), University of Chicago, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Bard College. She has published articles and book chapters on ancient Greek and Roman timekeeping, medicine, and magic. Sarah L. Symons, Ph.D. (1999), University of Leicester, is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She has published book chapters, papers, and popular articles on ancient Egyptian astronomy and timekeeping. Contributors are: Alexander Jones, Anja Wolkenhauer, Alexandra von Lieven, Stephan Heilen, James Ker, Barbara Sattler, John Steele, Anette Schomberg. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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