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

ISBN: 9789004373471 出版年：2019 页码：309 Kassandra J Miller Sarah Symons Brill

This book offers perspectives on the interplay between short-term timekeeping technologies and their social contexts in ancient egypt, babylon, greece, and rome. It explores the origins of the "hour" as a temporal unit and illuminates timekeeping activities in antiquity.