Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire / Paul J. Kosmin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kosmin, Paul J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time perception--Middle East--History.

Time perception.

Seleucids.

Calendar--Middle East--History.

Calendar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Imperial Present

1. The Seleucid Era and Its Epoch

2. A Government of Dating

3. Dynastic Time

Part II: Indigenous Past and Future

4. Total History 1: Rupture and Historiography

5. Total History 2: Periodization and Apocalypse

6. Altneuland Resistance and the Resurrected State

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674989610

0674989619

9780674989634

0674989635

OCLC:

1057550290