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03131aam a2200385 i 4500 001 74C216A074A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 191016s2020 ne ab b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019039734 020 $a 9004373470 020 $a 9789004373471 035 $a (OCoLC)1124793173 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QB213 D77 2020 245 00 $a Down to the hour : $b short time in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East / $c edited by Kassandra J. Miller, Sarah L. Symons. 264 1 $a Leiden ; $b Brill, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 297 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Time, astronomy, and calendars ; $v volume 8 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 500 $a Short time: measuring time at the sub-day level (e.g., hours, minutes). 505 0 $a Sun and stars : astronomical timekeeping in ancient Egypt / Sarah L. Symons -- The ancient Egyptian water clock between religious significance and scientific functionality / Alexandra von Lieven and Anette Schomberg -- Short time in Mesopotamia / John Steele -- Greco-Roman sundials : precision and displacement / Alexander Jones -- Cosmology and ideal society : the division of the day into hours in Plato's Laws / Barbara M. Sattler -- Diurnal selves in ancient Rome / James Ker -- time, punctuality, and chronotopes : concepts and attitudes concerning short time in ancient Rome / Anja Wolkenhauer -- Short time in Greco-Roman astrology / Stephan Heilen -- Hourly timekeeping and the problem of irregular fevers / Kassandra Jackson Miller 520 $a "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.Contributors are: Alexander Jones, Anja Wolkenhauer, Alexandra von Lieven, Stephan Heilen, James Ker, Barbara Sattler, John Steele, Annette Schomberg"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Time measurements $x History. 650 0 $a Statistical astronomy. 650 0 $a Clocks and watches $x History. 700 1 $a Miller, Kassandra J., $e editor. 700 1 $a Symons, Sarah L., $e editor. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Down to the hour: short time in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East $d Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. $z 9789004416291 $w (DLC) 2019039735 830 0 $a Time, astronomy, and calendars; $v v. 8. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201203011646.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=74C216A074A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search