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Sto caricando le informazioni... Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empiredi Paul J. Kosmin
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In 312/11 BC Seleucus I returned with a small force to Babylonia and defeated his rival Antigonus I Monophthalmus, who had expelled him from the province four years earlier. When he proclaimed himself king in 305 BC, he made this campaign the starting point of the Seleucid Era, a dating system that moved progressively forward until the dissolution of the Seleucid state—at that time a largely unknown way of time reckoning that became the model for our contemporary calendar eras. Paul J. Kosmin, author of the highly praised "The Land of the Elephant Kings", has dedicated his new book to the study of Seleucus I's innovation. In the first part of the volume (pp. 17–101) he discusses the establishment and functioning of the Seleucid Era, describing its use in the administration, on coins, measures and weights as well as in civic decrees and royal letters; he furthermore analyzes its effects on the perception of Seleucid kingship. The second part (pp. 103–233) details how the local populations of the Seleucid Empire, namely the inhabitants of Babylonia, Judaea, Armenia and western Iran, were influenced by the new dating system. Premi e riconoscimenti
Time and Resistance in the Seleucid Empire investigates the relationship between the formal temporal structures projected by the Seleucid imperial court and the indigenous temporalities that responded to, undermined, and ultimately resisted these. The complex and competing temporalities of the Hellenistic East - a site of intense creativity in conceptualizing time - have either been unnoticed in scholarship or treated in isolation. Understanding the interactions of these time systems as a coherent phenomenon of cultural and political history will provide new contexts and integrated explanations for questions central to both the classical Mediterranean world - such as post-Alexander state formation and "Hellenization" - and Near Eastern and religious studies - such as textual canonization and the emergence of apocalyptic theologies. The book's first half explores, above all, the invention and institutionalization of the Seleucid Era year count. This was the world's first continuous, irreversible, accumulating, and transcendent count of historical duration. The second part examines the Seleucid subjects' intellectual, religious, and political responses to this radically new temporal order. These include, most significantly, the first emergence of apocalyptic eschatology, that is, total histories of the world, from beginning to predicted end.-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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