They measured time on the large scale accurately enough for astronomical purposes, and on the small scale to build something as amazing as the Antikythera mechanism. They probably didn’t measure their days into minutes and seconds the way we do, the everyday functioning of the society didn’t need and couldn’t use such precision.
Thank you. Makes much more sense now. The greeks failed to abstract number from length, so they failed to develop abstract mathematics.
How aware were they of measurements of time?
They measured time on the large scale accurately enough for astronomical purposes, and on the small scale to build something as amazing as the Antikythera mechanism. They probably didn’t measure their days into minutes and seconds the way we do, the everyday functioning of the society didn’t need and couldn’t use such precision.