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Athenian time-reckoning = Mesopotamian (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Beginning of day 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.07 Chronology and hemerology 05.07.01 Beginning of day Chronology and hemerology 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.07 Chronology and hemerology	Keywords time
Period 2nd century CE	Channel Roman philosophers and scholars

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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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