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Down to the hour : short time in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East / edited by Kassandra J. Miller, Sarah L. Symons
Ouvrage
Appartient aux collections: Time, astronomy, and calendars, Burnett, Charles, Leiden, 2012-, 8, 2211-632X
Publication: Leiden [etc.] : Brill, 2020 cop. Description: 1 vol. (XI-297 p.) : ill., carte, fig. ; 25 cmCollection : Time, astronomy, and calendars; 8, ISSN 2211-632XTitre de forme: Congrès, Chicago, Illinois, 2017ISBN: 9789004373471.Langue: AnglaisPays: Pays-Bas Auteur principal: Miller, Kassandra J., Directeur de publication Co-auteur: Symons, Sarah L., Directeur de publication Résumé: "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. (Source : éditeur).Mots libres: horloge hydraulique . Item type: Ouvrage List(s) this item appears in: MSHM - Egypte 2023 | MSHM - Monde romain 2023 | MSHM - Monde grec 2023 | MSHM - Orient 2023
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Lyon : MOM - Bibliothèque de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Libre accès Papier HCL QB213. D6 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 162681
Nanterre : MSH Mondes - Bibliothèque d’archéologie et des sciences de l’Antiquité D.010/630 MILL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BMRG34202

Ouvrage issu de la conférence "Down to the hour: short time in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East", tenue à l'Université de Chicago en février 2017.

Bibliogr. en fin de contributions. Notes bibliogr. Index p. 293-297

"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.
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