Down to the hour : short time in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East / edited by Kassandra J. Miller, Sarah L. Symons.
"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 to...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] |
| Series: | Time, astronomy, and calendars ;
v. 8. |
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