Time and Temporality in the Ancient World - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1931707677 ISBN 13: 9781931707671

Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Museum of, 2004

Riassunto

Considering the topic of time in antiquity, juxtaposing cultures and societies, yields remarkable intersections, continuities, and discontinuities in the ways people have engaged with temporality.

One of the most persistent dichotomies we find across many premodern societies is that between cyclical and teleological time—time marching inexorably forward, toward a goal, and the markers of nature that seem repetitive, cyclical, and fundamentally stable. Over the millennia much ingenuity has been directed at these models. Specific examinations range from the construction of time and space in prehistory, Roman Britain, quantifications of time in Assyria and Babylonia, through aspects of time in classical India, the Hebrew Bible, China, Greece, and the Roman Empire.

With contributions by John C. Barrett (University of Sheffield), Marc Brettler (Brandeis University), Chris Gosden (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford), Astrid Möller (University of Freiburg), David Pankenier (Lehigh University), Alex Purves (University of California, Los Angeles), Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge), Ludo Rocher (University of Pennsylvania), and Michele Renee Salzman (University of California, Riverside).

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ralph M. Rosen is Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Museum of
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1931707677
• ISBN 13: 9781931707671
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 200
• Redattore: Rosen Ralph Mark
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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