Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

Autori

• Paul J. Kosmin

Parametri

• 392 pagine
• 14 ore di lettura

• Storia

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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... číst celé

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2019

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