Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire Kosmin Paul J.Pevná vazba
In this eye-opening book, Paul J. Kosmin explains how the Seleucid Empire's invention of a new kind of time--and the rebellions against this worldview--transformed the way we organize our thoughts…
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In this eye-opening book, Paul J. Kosmin explains how the Seleucid Empire's invention of a new kind of time--and the rebellions against this worldview--transformed the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future.In the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to the Persian Gulf. In a radical move to impose unity and regulate behavior, this Graeco-Macedonian imperial power introduced a linear and transcendent conception of time. Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the system we use today--continuous, irreversible, accumulating--became the de facto measure of historical duration. This new temporality, propagated throughout the empire, changed how people did business, recorded