How Long to Read Saeculum

How Long Does it Take to Read Saeculum?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Saeculum by Paul Hay

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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

How long is Saeculum?

Saeculum by Paul Hay is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Saeculum Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Saeculum aloud.

What Reading Level is Saeculum?

Saeculum is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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