Our lives today revolve around time. Walk down the street in any major city in the world, and you’ll see people checking clocks, watches and their phones to see the time. We write our schedules in calendars and planners. Businesses, governments and transportation systems operate on timetables. Clocks and calendars have become so ingrained in our daily routines that we seldom think about their origins. Many of our modern timekeeping practices have their roots in ancient Greece and Rome, which is the focus of Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity, a new exhibit at New York University’s Institute for […]
