Humanity has always felt a powerful need to impose scale and order on that most elusive and transient of elements: time. But what ends do our clocks and calenders really serve?While our old dependence once lay in the gods, our modern deity has become the clock. ... According to the mythologist Jane Harrison: aquot;Kronos is the Accomplisher of the full circle of the year. ... Works and Days in which the passage of time is marked by the celestial dance steps performed by sun, moon, and planets.
Title | : | Empires of Time |
Author | : | Anthony F. Aveni |
Publisher | : | Tauris Parke Paperbacks - 2000 |
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