ISBN10: 0715633015, ISBN13: 9780715633014, [publisher: Duckworth Publishing. 2007.] Softcover Paperback. Very good.170pp.
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United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. Date: 2005. Paperback. 0715633015 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularizing 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 timepiece, 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 organize their activities. It sets the calendars of the Greeks and Romans on a stage occupied by real people, who developed and lived with these timepieces 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 ...