Saeculum : defining historical eras in ancient Roman thought /

Saeculum : defining historical eras in ancient Roman thought /

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Author / Creator:	Hay, Paul (Paul Jerome), author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	viii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	History -- Periodization. Historiography. Historiography. History -- Periodization. Rome -- History -- Periodization. Rome -- Historiography. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13154384

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ISBN:	9781477327395 1477327398 9781477327401 9781477327418
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period from the next. But societies have not always operated in this way. Paul Hay returns to Rome in the first century BCE to glimpse the beginnings of periodization as it is still commonly practiced, exploring how the ancient Romans developed a novel sense of time and used it to construct their views of the past and of the possibilities of the future. It was the Roman general Sulla who first sought to portray himself as the inaugurator of a new age of prosperity, and through him Romans adopted the Etruscan term saeculum to refer to a unique era of history. Romans went on to deepen their investment in periodization by linking notions of time to moments of catastrophe, allowing them to conceptualize their own epoch and its conclusion, as in the literature of Vergil and Horace. Periodization further introduced the idea of specific agents of change into Roman thought--agents that were foundational to narratives of progress and decline. An eye-opening account, Saeculum describes nothing less than an intellectual and cognitive revolution, which fundamentally reorganized the meanings of history and time"--
Other form:	Online version: Hay, Paul. Saeculum. First edition Austin : University of Texas Press, 2023 9781477327401

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