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Athenian time-reckoning = Mesopotamian (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore

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time
Period
2nd century CE
Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.2.4:
The Athenians … regard all the intervening time from one sunset to the next as one single day [as against the Romans, whose day extended from midnight to midnight]


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Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.2.4

Simo Parpola


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