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

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...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction --   |t Part I: Imperial Present --   |t 1. The Seleucid Era and Its Epoch --   |t 2. A Government of Dating --   |t 3. Dynastic Time --   |t Part II: Indigenous Past and Future --   |t 4. Total History 1: Rupture and Historiography --   |t 5. Total History 2: Periodization and Apocalypse --   |t 6. Altneuland Resistance and the Resurrected State --   |t Conclusion --   |t Abbreviations --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables --   |t Index 
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