Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire Kosmin Paul J.Pevná vazba
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire Kosmin Paul J.Pevná vazba In this eye-opening book, Paul J. In a radical move to impose unity and regulate behavior, this Graeco-Macedonian imperial…
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Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire Kosmin Paul J.Pevná vazba
In this eye-opening book, Paul J. In a radical move to impose unity and regulate behavior, this Graeco-Macedonian imperial power introduced a linear and transcendent conception of time. 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.
Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the system we use today--continuous, irreversible, accumulating--became the de facto measure of historical duration. Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. This new temporality, propagated throughout the empire, changed how people did business, recorded