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Time and temporality in the ancient world
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Time and temporality in the ancient world

Author: Ralph Mark Rosen; University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English : 1st ed
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Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ralph Mark Rosen; University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
ISBN: 1931707677 9781931707671
OCLC Number: 54962516
Notes: "The chapters in this volume were originally presented at a conference at the University of Pennsylvania in April 2002"--Pref.
Description: 216 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Contents: Preface, Ancient time across time / Ralph M. Rosen -- Temporality and the study of prehistory / John C. Barrett -- Shaping life in the late prehistoric and Romano-British periods / Chris Gosden -- Scholarly conceptions and quantifications of time in Assyria and Babylonia, c. 750-250 BCE / Eleanor Robson -- Concepts of time in classical India / Ludo Rocher -- Cyclical and teleological time in the Hebrew Bible / Marc Brettler -- Temporality and the fabric of space-time in early Chinese thought / David W. Pankenier -- Topographies of time in Hesiod / Alex Purves -- Greek chronographic traditions about the first Olympic Games / Astrid Möller -- Pagan and Christian notions of the week in the 4th century CE Western Roman empire / Michele Renee Salzman.
Responsibility: edited by Ralph M. Rosen.
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