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Units of time as divine beings (2)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Measures of time 08 Administrative systems 08.05 Administrative standards 08.05.03 Measures of time	Keywords Neoplatonism personifications time
Period 5th century CE Roman Empire	Channel Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

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Proclus, In Timaeum 248D:
General opinion makes the Hours goddesses and the Month a god, and their worship has been handed on to us: we say also that the Day and the Night are deities, and the gods themselves have taught us how to call upon them. Does it not necessarily follow that Time also should be a god, seeing that it includes at once months and hours, days and nights?

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Proclus, In Timaeum 248D

Bibliography

Cumont 1912, 109

Cumont, Franz. Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans. American Lectures on the History of Religions 8. New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912.

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