Aproximación al concepto de tiempo Orosio
ISSN: 0214-7165
Year of publication: 1995
Issue Title: Lengua e historia : homenaje al profesor Dr. D. Antonio Yelo Templado al cumplir 65 años
Issue: 12
Pages: 255-260
Type: Article
More publications in: Antigüedad y cristianismo: revista de estudios sobre antigüedad tardía
Abstract
. The term tempus is frequently employed by Orosius. In his Historiae, he deals with the comparison between happiness in pagan times and in Christian ones (praeteria tempora, christiana tempora). In the same way, he understands the history of Rome from the "four universal monarchies" scheme inherited from Daniel; or from a biological point of view, according to which, his age corresponds to an old world, to a Roma senescens. In his Liber apologeticus, Orosius pays attention to the relationship between time and God, who he qualifies as autor temporum, and he insists on the divine order of times.