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Time in Antiquity

by Robert Hannah

How did ordinary people in the ancient world conceptualise time? Robert Hannah argues that the best way to answer this question is not to focus on the works of philosophers (who after all were the only writers to really focus on the issue), but to study the instruments used for measuring and marking time, the sundials, water clocks and calendars of the ancient world, as well as the ways in which the landscape both natural and man-made was used in marking time. The book is thus primarily archaeological and scientific in its emphasis, a clear outline of the development of ancient technology, and the ways in which people interacted with it. 206p b/w illus (Routledge 2009)

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