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Author | : Robert Hannah |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2013-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849667519 |
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The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its regularity is a function of how well it models the more or less regular movements of the celestial bodies - of the moon, the sun or the stars. Greek and Roman Calendars examines the ancient calendar as just such a time-piece, whose elements are readily described in astronomical and mathematical terms. The story of these calendars is one of a continuous struggle to maintain a correspondence with the regularity of the seasons and the sun, despite the fact that the calendars were usually based on the irregular moon. But on another, more human level, Greek and Roman Calendars steps beyond the merely mathematical and studies the calendar as a social instrument, which people used to organise their activities. It sets the calendars of the Greeks and Romans on a stage occupied by real people, who developed and lived with these time-pieces for a variety of purposes - agricultural, religious, political and economic.This is also a story of intersecting cultures, of Greeks with Greeks, of Greeks with Persians and Egyptians, and of Greeks with Romans, in which various calendaric traditions clashed or compromised.
Author | : Alan E. Samuel |
Publisher | : C.H.Beck |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Calendar, Greek |
ISBN | : 9783406033483 |
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Author | : Denis Feeney |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2007-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520251199 |
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Author | : Alan Edouard Samuel |
Publisher | : C.H.Beck |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Bahai calendar |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jörg Rüpke |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781444396522 |
Download The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts. Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religious history of the Roman calendar Provides a comprehensive historical and social contextualization of ancient calendars and chronicles Highlights the unique characteristics which are still visible in the most dominant modern global calendar
Author | : Elias Joseph Bickerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History, Ancient |
ISBN | : |
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This book gives explanations and calculations relating to the calendars of ancient civilizations and methods of dating past events.
Author | : Denis Feeney |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520258010 |
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Author | : Sacha Stern |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199589445 |
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Calendars were at the heart of ancient culture and society and were far more than just technical, time-keeping devices. Calendars in Antiquity offers a comprehensive study of the calendars of the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world, from the origins up to and including Jewish and Christian calendars in late Antiquity.
Author | : James Evans |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691174407 |
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017.
Author | : Jean MacIntosh Turfa |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2012-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139536400 |
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The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar is a rare document of omens foretold by thunder. It long lay hidden, embedded in a Greek translation within a Byzantine treatise from the age of Justinian. The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, this book provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text, especially the Etruscans' concerns regarding the environment, food, health and disease. Jean MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before the advent of writing and the recording of the calendar.