The Many Greek Calendars: Time-Reckoning in an Urban Network

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2 août 2020

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Religion and Urbanity

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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urbrel, « The Many Greek Calendars: Time-Reckoning in an Urban Network », Religion and Urbanity, ID : 10670/1.i05onn

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Already in the second millennium BCE polities in the regions around the Aegean Sea had reached a complexity that made coordination in the form of an ordered sequence of named months necessary. These are attested for the Mycean period of the second half of this millennium. Such ‘calendars’ were far from rule-based systems that allowed for the fixing of meetings or shared activities by day months or even years in advance. As in many regions around the Mediterranean Sea, time-reckoning was based...

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