Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

Nonfiction, History, Ancient History, Greece, Middle East, Religion & Spirituality, Bible & Bible Studies
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Author: Paul J. Kosmin ISBN: 9780674989610
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: December 3, 2018
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Paul J. Kosmin
ISBN: 9780674989610
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: December 3, 2018
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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.

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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 our thoughts about the past, present, and future.

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