Greek and Roman calendars : constructions of time in the classical world /
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....
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2005.
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