Time and Temporality in the Ancient World
Edited by Ralph M Rosen
Hardback (Published)
(April 2004)
ISBN: 9781931707671
5.47 x 8.46 inches
Price: $33.00
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Explores the diverse concepts of time in antiquity across cultures, from cyclical to teleological perspectives. Scholars delve into prehistory, Roman Britain, Assyria, Babylonia, classical India, the Hebrew Bible, China, Greece, and the Roman Empire.
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 Moller (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).
- Edited by Ralph M Rosen
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