Calendars in antiquity : empires, states, and societies

Calendars in antiquity : empires, states, and societies / Sacha Stern.

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 ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, Gaul, and all other parts of the Mediterranean and the Ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stern, Sacha
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
To 1500
Calendar > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500.
Calendar > Middle East > History > To 1500.
Calendar > Mediterranean Region > Political asepcts.
Calendar > Political aspects > Middle East.
SCIENCE > Time.
Calendar
Mediterranean Region > History > To 476.
Middle East > History > To 622.
Mediterranean Region
Middle East
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I: From city states to great empires : the rise of the fixed calendars. Calendars of ancient Greece
  • The Babylonian calendar
  • The Egyptian calendar
  • The rise of the fixed calendars : Persian, Ptolemaic, and Julian calendars
  • pt. II: The empires challenged and dissolved : calendar diversity and fragmentation. Fragmentation : Babylonion and Julian calendars in the Near East, third century BCE-seventh century CE
  • Dissidence and subversion : Gallic, Jewish, and other lunar calendars in the Roman empire
  • Sectarianism and heresy : from Qumran calendars to Christian Easter controversies
  • Conclusion.

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