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- Title
PRESENT RELEVANCE OF CLASSICAL CONCEPTIONS OF TIME.
- Authors
Bardis, Panos D.
- Abstract
This article presents information on various concepts and philosophies of time given during the Greco-Roman civilization. The article thus talks about the Greek and Roman clocks. Greek philosopher Plato emphasizes that all changes including the social type, must be correlated mainly from the framework of time. He says that the concepts of urbanization and institutional changes can be understood better when they are broken down into their smallest component elements. These elements are in turn, connected with the corresponding time units. Plato said that time and the cosmos are linked with each other. The Romans had two kinds of timekeepers, water clocks and sundials. Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, coined the Greek term clepsydra. Timekeepers in the city of Romulus, adopted the use of Roman numerals on clock dials. This is because the Roman numerical system characterizes symmetry. This concept of symmetry also explains the reasons for which the Romans almost always employed IIII for the numeral 4, instead of the correct IV.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY of time; GRECO-Roman civilization; ANCIENT history; URBANIZATION; SENECA, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; ROMAN numerals; WATER clocks; TIMEKEEPING
- Publication
Science Education, 1968, Vol 52, Issue 1, p35
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730520108