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My book is set in circa 320 BC. It'a Persian/Macedonian/Greek/Egyptian world. They didn't use miles/seconds/kilograms.
How would you portray these units? Right now I just say minutes/hours/days/weeks etc. in reference to time, and stadia in terms of distance (long distance only) - but it feels mixed. Am wondering if for common units I just stick with modern measures, with the unstated understanding that the character would be referring to it in whatever way they did. Where possible I just say 'soon' or 'in an instant' etc. and don't refer to time at all. For distance where possible I say 'it took two days' instead of X miles. etc.
Thoughts?
How would you portray these units? Right now I just say minutes/hours/days/weeks etc. in reference to time, and stadia in terms of distance (long distance only) - but it feels mixed. Am wondering if for common units I just stick with modern measures, with the unstated understanding that the character would be referring to it in whatever way they did. Where possible I just say 'soon' or 'in an instant' etc. and don't refer to time at all. For distance where possible I say 'it took two days' instead of X miles. etc.
Thoughts?