"A murder on the Appian way" - читать интересную книгу автора (Saylor Steven)
2 CONTENTS
A Note on Names and the Hours of the Roman Day Map
Part One RIOT
Part Two ROAD
Part Three REX?
Part Four RING
Author's Note
A Note on Names
and the Hours of the Roman Day
For the names of certain historical figures in these pages, I have used familiar literary forms rather than the more authentic Latin. While their contemporaries never referred to Marcus Antonius as "Marc Antony," or to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus as "Pompey the Great," these traditional versions carry such a magic that it seemed pedantic to resist them.
The ancient Romans did not number their hours as we do, in twelve-hour segments before and after midday, but rather beginning at daybreak, so that when a Roman spoke of the first hour of the day, he meant, quite literally, the first hour of daylight; and the first hour of the night was the first hour of darkness. The following table roughly approximates the equivalent hours of the day, as drawn from the historical sources and used in Murder on the Appian Way:
7 a.m. the first hour of the day
8 a.m. the second hour of the day
9 a.m. the third hour of the day
10 a.m. the fourth hour of the day
11 a.m. the fifth hour of the day
noon the sixth hour of the day
1 p.m. the seventh hour of the day
2 p.m. the eighth hour of the day
3 p.m. the ninth hour of the day
4 p.m. the tenth hour of the day
5 p.m. the eleventh hour of the day
6 p.m. the twelfth hour of the day
7 p.m. the first hour of the night
8 p.m. the second hour of the night
9 p.m. the third hour of the night
10 p.m. the fourth hour of the night
11 p.m. the fifth hour of the night
midnightthe sixth hour of the night
1 a.m. the seventh hour of the night
2 a.m. the eighth hour of the night
3 a.m. the ninth hour of the night
4 a.m. the tenth hour of the night
5 a.m. the eleventh hour of the night
6 a.m. the twelfth hour of the night
To those who taught me history, beginning with Iva Cockrell, and at the University of Texas at Austin, Professors Oliver Radkey, M. Gwyn Morgan, Richard Graham and R. David Armstrong