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

312 Pages·2019·3.786 MB·other
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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.
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