Umfang:
206 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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29 cm
ISBN:
9780691174402
Inhalt:
The Greeks and Romans lived according to a distinctively Hellenic conception of time as an aspect of cosmic order and regularity. Appropriating ideas from Egypt and the Near East, the Greeks integrated them into a cosmological framework governed by mathematics and linking the cycles of the heavenly bodies to the human environment. From their cosmology they derived instruments for measuring and tracking the passage of time that were sophisticated embodiments of scientific reasoning and technical craft, meant not solely for the study of specialists and connoisseurs but for the public gaze. Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity, the accompanying catalogue for the exhibition at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, explores through thematic essays and beautiful illustrations the practical as well as the artistic, ideological, and spiritual role of time technology and time imagery in the Mediterranean civilizations. Highlights among the more than one hundred objects from the exhibition include marvelously inventive sundials and portable timekeeping devices, stone and ceramic calendars, zodiac boards for displaying horoscopes, and mosaics, sculptures, and coins that reflect ancient perceptions of the controlling power of time and the heavens. 00Exhibition: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, USA (19.10.2016-23.04.2017).--
Anmerkung:
Aus dem Impressum: "published ... on the occasion of the exhibition 'Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity', at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017"
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Introduction
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Near East relations : Mesopotamia and Egypt
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Measuring the hours : sundials, water clocks, and portable sundials
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Days, months, years, and other time cycles
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Astrology in the Greco-Roman world
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Images of time and cosmic connection
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Roman imperial imagery of time and cosmos
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Exhibition checklist.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
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Physik
Schlagwort(e):
Antike
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Astronomie
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Weltall
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Zeit
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Kunst
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Schaldach, Karlheinz 1951-
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Heilen, Stephan 1965-
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Weisser, Bernhard 1964-
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