The Ekphrasis on the Water Clock: Art, Rhetoric and Measurement of Time in Sixth-Century Gaza.
This paper discusses The Ekphrasis on the Water Clock, composed in the sixth century C.E. by Procopius of Gaza. It inspects three facets: 1. The Gaza clock against the background of other clocks in antiquity 2. The artwork of the theatrical display presented in the Gaza clock 3. The rhetoric of Proc...
| Published in: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 44; pp. 1 - 33 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2025
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