Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars)

Miller, Kassandra (EDT)/ Symons, Sarah (EDT)

Brill（2019/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 300 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004373471

Full Description

"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.

Contents

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