Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

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Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire is written by Paul J. Kosmin and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674989619 (ISBN 10) and 9780674989610 (ISBN 13).

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 our thoughts about the past, present, and future.