Time and its adversaries in the Seleucid empire / Paul J. Kosmin.
Time and its adversaries in the Seleucid empire / Paul J. Kosmin.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018]
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G 2019/5667
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English
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Physical content
x, 379 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
I.
Imperial present: The Seleucid Era and its epoch --
A government of dating --
Dynastic time --
II.
Indigenous past and future: Total history 1: rupture and historiography --
Total history 2: periodization and apocalypse --
Altneuland: resistance and the resurrected state.
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2018]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
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 conc...
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Time and its adversaries in the Seleucid empire / Paul J. Kosmin.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-363) and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/5667
Record Identifier
74VKa2WkQQdl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa2WkQQdl
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ISBN
0674976932 hardcover
9780674976931 hardcover
DDC
529.0935
MMS ID
991024277215402626
