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The Ordered Day - Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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The Ordered Day - Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Histories of the Ancient World
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Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman
culture--and beyond. How did ancient Romans keep track of time?
What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four
hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the
day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity and in
modern receptions of ancient Rome. Romans used the story of how the
day emerged as a unit of sociocultural time to give order to their
own civic and imperial history. Ancient literary descriptions of
people's daily routines articulated distinctive forms of life
within the social order. And in the imperial period and beyond,
outsiders--such as early Christians in their monastic rules and
modern antiquarians in books on daily life--ordered their knowledge
of Roman life through reworking the day as a heuristic framework.
Scholarly interest in Roman time has recently moved from the larger
unit of the year and calendar to smaller units of time, especially
in the study of sundials and other timekeeping technologies of the
ancient Mediterranean. Through extensive analysis of ancient
literary texts and material culture as well as modern daily life
handbooks, Ker demonstrates the privileged role that "small time"
played, and continues to play, in Roman literary and cultural
history. Ker argues that the ordering of the day provided the basis
for the organizing of history, society, and modern knowledge about
ancient Rome. For readers curious about daily life in ancient Rome
as well as for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin
literature, The Ordered Day provides an accessible and fascinating
account of the makings of the Roman day and its relationship to
modern time structures.
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