Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

Kosmin, Paul J.

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“…[49][50][51][52][53], Media (4. [54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64], Persia (4. , and Macedonia (4.88-101). The Sibyl then connects the decline of Macedonia with Rome's ascent to power, without any immediate discussion of Roman downfall:…”

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“…[49][50][51][52][53], Media (4. [54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64], Persia (4. , , and finally, . This text has attracted scholarly attention primarily in debates about the source(s) for the four kingdoms motif, especially as that motif occurs in Daniel.1 Secondarily, scholars have turned to the four kingdoms motif in Sib.…”

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“…He interprets not just apocalyptic eschatology generally, but also the four kingdoms motif specifically-in both Jewish and Iranian iterations (i.e., Daniel and the origins of the Zand ī Wahman Yasn)-as a set of third-and second-century-bce reactions against Seleucid projections of continuous imperial time. 64 Kosmin does not discuss the Sibylline Oracles, but the four kingdoms motif in Sib. Or.…”

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The Four Kingdoms Motif and Sibylline Temporality in Sibylline Oracles 4

Lester¹

2020

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Lester¹

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“…144 (ANN DCCCLXXIIII), an aureus, and no. 609, a sestertius with the same design and date; on the Seleucid era, see Samuel 1972: 245–6, on its utility: ‘Of all of the eras which came into use in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, it was probably the era which was most broadly used and most widely understood.’ The significance of the Seleucid system's unprecedented nature has been understood by Kosmin 2018: 22: ‘… the Seleucid Era's time reckoning was uninterrupted, irreversible, paratactic, cumulative, endless, and directional … [it] was the world's first continuous tally of counted years and the unheralded model for all subsequent era systems …’…”

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Did the Romans Have a Future?

Shaw

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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In analysing matters as diverse as state financing, strategic planning, public benefactions and long-term credit in private business transactions, the historian is faced with an underlying problem about the perceptions of time. One aspect of this problem is the manner in which pictures of a complex future are reflected in the behaviour of agents engaged in these activities. The manner in which actions were (or were not) taken by them suggests a peculiar configuration of future time in the Roman world. It is speculatively argued that perspectives on the future had analogies with the different ways in which a sense of depth was created by artists working on a two-dimensional space and with the contextual ways in which spatial perspective was employed.

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“…16,this volume.  The most salient case of this is the discovery of the Bactrian-language Rabatak inscription in 1993, discussed further below.  For the political and cultic significance of reckoning time in new eras from the Hellenistic period onward, see most recently Kosmin 2018. terpretation of literary, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence appear to have finally fixed some dates, approved by wide scholarly consensus. 25 The beginning of the Greek (Yavana) era probably commenced in 175 , 26 perhaps instituted to mark a co-regency between the Graeco-Bactrian king Antimachos I and the Indo-Greek king Apollodotos I.…”

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2. Central Asian Empires

Morris¹

2019

Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies

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During the mid to late first millennium , Central Asia underwent enormous political and cultural change. Through the military campaigns of the Achaemenid kings Cyrus II and Darius I, Central Asia came to form the empire's northeastern frontier by the late sixth century . 1 As with the rest of the Achaemenid Empire, this space was subdivided into dahyava (countries)-preexisting cultural units refigured as satrapal administrative units-from which taxes, military personnel, and laborers could be levied. Bactria was an especially resource-rich and significant country, whose satraps were often drawn from the Achaemenid royal family, but it was also unruly and prone to revolt. 2 Here, the Achaemenid administration further developed the irrigation systems that had existed since the Bronze Age, 3 and introduced the use of Aramaic as a chancellery language; the use of Elamite has been additionally attested in Arachosia. 4 Between 329 and 327 , Alexander the Great campaigned in Central Asia for two difficult years in the pursuit of Bessos (the satrap of Bactria who had murdered the king Darius III), all the while adapting himself to Persian modes of rule and largely preserving administrative structures he found in place. 5 One important cultural ramification of Alexander's conquests was the introduction of demobilized Greek and Macedonian soldiers into the population through the foundation of new settlements with a strong military component. 6 Garrisons were established within existing cities or as new outposts, existing cities were refounded, and new foundations were also established, such as Alexandria Eschate on the Jaxartes (mod. Syr

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Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

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