Alarm Clocks in Ancient Rome | Telling Time in Ancient Rome

Most ancient Romans got up with the first light of the day or with the first rooster-crow. But what if one had an appointment in the middle of the night or before sunrise? The answer is surprisingly simple, at least for the rich: they would’ve simply set an alarm clock as the ancient author Vitruvius inform us. Ancient Romans made use of different methods to measure time, the most important were sundials and water clocks of which there was a great variety.
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Sources:
Dorn-van Rossum, Gerhard, s.v. Clocks, in: in: Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (DNP) [20.11.2019].
Gibbs, S.L., Greek and Roman Sundials, 1976.
Landels, J. G., Die Technik in der antiken Welt, München 1980.
Weeber, K. W., s.v. Uhr, in: Alltag im Alten Rom, Düsseldorf 2001.

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