The Ordered Day: Quotidian Time and Forms of Life in Ancient Rome

Recipient of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies

How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty—four hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity and in modern receptions of ancient Rome.

Romans used the story of how the day emerge...