The Sacred And Civil Calendar Of The Athenian Year

Author : Jon D. Mikalson
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ISBN 13 : 9780691035451
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year written by Jon D. Mikalson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals, religious ceremonies, and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and update our knowledge of the calendar as it reflects Athenian life. The facts and conclusions that emerge from the author's analysis correct some earlier assumptions. He brings to light new information concerning the meeting days of the Athenian Assembly and the Council, and establishes the days of the monthly festivals. Annual festivals are either dated exactly or fixed within closer time limits. The result of the author's rigorous approach is a collection of reliable evidence as to what religious and secular activities occurred on specific days of the Athenian year. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jon D. Mikalson
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ISBN 13 : 9780691034584
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400870321
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book The Sacred and Civil Calendar of the Athenian Year written by Jon D. Mikalson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From epigraphical, archaeological, and literary evidence Jon D. Mikalson has here assembled all relevant data concerning the dates of Athenian festivals, religious ceremonies, and legislative assemblies. This information has been used to revise and update our knowledge of the calendar as it reflects Athenian life. The facts and conclusions that emerge from the author's analysis correct some earlier assumptions. He brings to light new information concerning the meeting days of the Athenian Assembly and the Council, and establishes the days of the monthly festivals. Annual festivals are either dated exactly or fixed within closer time limits. The result of the author's rigorous approach is a collection of reliable evidence as to what religious and secular activities occurred on specific days of the Athenian year. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Benjamin Dean Meritt
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Athenian Calendar in the Fifth Century written by Benjamin Dean Meritt and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 1928 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery in 1914, while excavating the Erectheum, of several small fragments of inscription forms the basis of this study. This text recorded the detailed accounts of money borrowed from Athena and "the other gods" during the years 426/5 to 423/2 B.C. Because it also specified the timing of the repayments, the inscription provided valuable insights into the official dating scheme used by the Athenian state. It is presented in full in the first half of this book. The second half moves on to explore other pieces of evidence for the Athenian calendar, senatorial and civil, during the Peloponnesian War.

Author : William Kendrick Pritchett
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calendars of Athens written by William Kendrick Pritchett and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 1947 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical studies of the ancient Athenian calendar. Contents: "Problems of the Athenian Calendar"; "The Athenian Prytany Calendar from 341/0 to 307/6"; "Intercalary Years in the Period of the Twelve Phylae"; "Ordinary Years in the Period of the Twelve Phylae"; "Period of Thirteen Phylae"; "The Athenian Prytany Calendar of the Fifth Century"; "Months on Coins."

Author : Jon D. Mikalson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book The Sacred and the Civil Calender of the Athenian Year written by Jon D. Mikalson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W.K. Pritchett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494340
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athenian Calendars and Ekklesias written by W.K. Pritchett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist study of the principles of Athenian time-reckoning. Pritchett looks at the devising and manipulation of festival and prytany calendars, the irregularities found within them, and addresses the complexities of lunar cycles, extra days and leap years.

Author : Jon D. Mikalson
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Download or read book The sacred and civil calender of the Athenian year/Jon D. Mikalson written by Jon D. Mikalson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191626228
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendars in Antiquity written by Sacha Stern and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Near East, from the origins up to and including Jewish and Christian calendars in late Antiquity. In this volume, Stern sheds light on the political context in which ancient calendars were designed and managed. Set and controlled by political rulers, calendars served as expressions of political power, as mechanisms of social control, and sometimes as assertions of political independence, or even of sub-culture and dissidence. While ancient calendars varied widely, they all shared a common history, evolving on the whole from flexible, lunar calendars to fixed, solar schemes. The Egyptian calendar played an important role in this process, leading most notably to the institution of the Julian calendar in Rome, the forerunner of our modern Gregorian calendar. Stern argues that this common, evolutionary trajectory was not the result of scientific or technical progress. It was rather the result of major political and social changes that transformed the ancient world, with the formation of the great Near Eastern empires and then the Hellenistic and Roman Empires from the first millennium BC to late Antiquity. The institution of standard, fixed calendars served the administrative needs of these great empires but also contributed to their cultural cohesion.

Author : Peter Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521542135
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia written by Peter Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of a central cultural institution of classical Athens.