The ordered day : quotidian time and forms of life in Ancient Rome /
"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 24 hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept,...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Мова: | Англійська |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2023.
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| Серія: | Cultural histories of the ancient world.
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| Онлайн доступ: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3417342 |
Зміст:
- Part I: Ordering History
- In Search of Palamedes
- The Long-Legged Fly
- Telling Roman Time
- Part II: Ordering Lives
- Days in the Life
- Three Patterns to Live By
- Epicurean Days? Cicero and Horace
- Literary Days: Martial and Pliny the Younger
- Today in Retrospect: Seneca and Marcus Aurelius
- Part III: Ordering Knowledge
- Christian Roman Days
- La Vie Quodidienne a Rome
- Reading Roman Days in Modern Times.