Ancient Measures Converter

[D B Campbell]

... if you could point to a website with exact measures of the ancient Greek time, I will review the software and MIGHT include the ancient Greek measures, as well. Not sure, though.

Greek measures are surprisingly straightforward, once you realise (a) that everything depends on the pous ('foot'), and (b) that there were basically four different 'foot' standards.

(a) 1 pous = 16 daktyloi, and all other measures derive from this.
e.g., the palastê ('palm') of 4 daktyloi; the spithamê ('span') of 12 daktyloi; the pêchys ('cubit') of 24 daktyloi.

(b) the Attic foot = 295.7mm; the Olympic foot = 320mm; the Pergamene foot = 330mm; the Aeginetan foot = 333mm.

(Did I miss anything?!)