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

The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its re

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A specialist study of the principles of Athenian time-reckoning. Pritchett looks at the devising and manipulation of festival and prytany calendars, the irregul