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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Ralph M. Rosen is Professor of Classics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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When the Center for Ancient Studies was founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, its guiding mission was to encourage scholars of pre-modern cultures to interact in fruitful ways with each other, without fear of crossing traditional disciplinary, geographical, or methodological boundaries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Bronze Age, New York, Oxford University Press, Book of Changes, Cambridge University Press, Epic of Creation, Sol Invictus, Tablet of Destinies, Altes Testament, Dead Sea Scrolls, Epic of Gilgamesh, Alter Orient, Ancient Near East, Great Measure, Pole Star, Theodosian Code, Fortress Press, Hundred Handers, Princeton University Press, State Archives of Assyria, University of California Press, Anchor Bible Dictionary, Assyrian King List, British Museum, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum New!
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- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on 7 pages
- Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae (5 Volume Set) by Hermann Dessau on page 195, page 204, and page 209
- Ancient World (Illustrated World History) by Jane Chisholm on page 88, and page 90
- The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous on page 69, and page 85
- Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series) by Eusebius on page 200, and page 208
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