Author: Robert Hannah
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849667519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Greek and Roman Calendars
Author: Robert Hannah
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849667519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1849667519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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.
Greek and Roman Chronology
Author: Alan Edouard Samuel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Caesar’s Calendar
Author: Denis Feeney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520251199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
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Greek and Roman Chronology
Author: Alan E. Samuel
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406033483
Category : Calendar, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406033483
Category : Calendar, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine
Author: Jörg Rüpke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444396522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444396522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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
Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages
Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Calendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the week as a standard method of dating and time reckoning.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Calendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the week as a standard method of dating and time reckoning.
Greek and Roman Civilizations, Grades 5 - 8
Author: Heidi M. C. Dierckx
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
ISBN: 1580376274
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Provides lessons and activities on the history, literature, music, geography, and art of the ancient Romans and Greeks.
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
ISBN: 1580376274
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Provides lessons and activities on the history, literature, music, geography, and art of the ancient Romans and Greeks.
On Roman Time
Author: Michele Renee Salzman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520909100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance remain invaluable documents of Roman society and religion in the years between Constantine's conversion and the fall of the Western Empire. In this richly illustrated book, Michele Renee Salzman establishes that the traditions of Roman art and literature were still very much alive in the mid-fourth century. Going beyond this analysis of precedents and genre, Salzman also studies the Calendar of 354 as a reflection of the world that produced and used it. Her work reveals the continuing importance of pagan festivals and cults in the Christian era and highlights the rise of a respectable aristocratic Christianity that combined pagan and Christian practices. Salzman stresses the key role of the Christian emperors and imperial institutions in supporting pagan rituals. Such policies of accomodation and assimilation resulted in a gradual and relatively peaceful transformation of Rome from a pagan to a Christian capital.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520909100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance remain invaluable documents of Roman society and religion in the years between Constantine's conversion and the fall of the Western Empire. In this richly illustrated book, Michele Renee Salzman establishes that the traditions of Roman art and literature were still very much alive in the mid-fourth century. Going beyond this analysis of precedents and genre, Salzman also studies the Calendar of 354 as a reflection of the world that produced and used it. Her work reveals the continuing importance of pagan festivals and cults in the Christian era and highlights the rise of a respectable aristocratic Christianity that combined pagan and Christian practices. Salzman stresses the key role of the Christian emperors and imperial institutions in supporting pagan rituals. Such policies of accomodation and assimilation resulted in a gradual and relatively peaceful transformation of Rome from a pagan to a Christian capital.
Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Author: James Evans
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691174407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691174407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
Calendars in Antiquity
Author: Sacha Stern
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199589445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199589445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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.