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Greek and Roman Calendars (Paperback, New)
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Greek and Roman Calendars (Paperback, New)
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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.
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