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Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought Audiobook, by Paul Hay Play Audiobook Sample

Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought Audiobook

Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought Audiobook, by Paul Hay Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Roman Howell Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798350850222

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

12

Longest Chapter Length:

58:55 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

21:05 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

41:51 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives.

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. 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, that fundamentally reorganized the meanings of history and time.

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