Greek and Roman Calendars. Constructions of Time in the Classical World. - HANNAH, R.,
Constructions of Time in the Classical World
KORTE INHOUD
'Hannah's is the first book in some twenty-five years to survey this difficult, technical, and important topic. Hannah clearly sets out his goals in the Introduction: he aims, in part, to make available to a 'wider readership' the results of his predecessors and to update the story of the Greek and Roman calendars with recent discoveries on these calendars. He further aims to set the time-reckoning devices of the Greeks and Romans on a 'stage occupied by real people', in other words to approach the calendars of the Greeks and Romans from both astronomical and social perspectives. Hannah's work moves generally in chronological order and covers a wide range of topics including the principal units of time based on observational astronomy, the calendars of the Greeks from the late Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period, the calendars of Rome, and the afterlife of the Julian calendar in the Christian world. It includes a Select Bibliography, an Index of Passages Cited, and an Index of Subjects. (...) The work s...
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London, n.d. Photomechanical reprint ed.2007. VI,170p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: HANNAH, R.,] [Uitgever: Duckworth] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Greek and Roman Calendars. Constructions of Time in the Classical World.]
