Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire /

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Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the system we use today, became the measure of historical duration. Paul Kosmin shows how this invention of a new kind of time-and resistance to it-transformed the way we organize...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kosmin, Paul J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Calendar > Middle East > History.
Calendar-Middle East-History.
End of the world.
Ethnoscience > Middle East > History.
Imperialism and science > Middle East > History.
Seleucids.
Time perception > Middle East > History.
Time perception-Middle East-History.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
achaemenid.
ancient greece.
ancient near east.
antiquity.
babylonia.
calendar.
cuneiform.
date.
hebrew bible.
hellenistic culture.
historiography.
macedonian empire.
mesopotamia.
nicator.
persia.
roman.
seleucus.
zoroastrian.
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Sumario:Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the system we use today, became the measure of historical duration. Paul Kosmin shows how this invention of a new kind of time-and resistance to it-transformed the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (390 p.)
ISBN:9780674989634
9783110606621
Acceso:restricted access

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