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The Christian invention of time : temporality and the literature of late antiquity /

"Time is inextricably connected to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such transformation - under Christianity's influence - happened in late antiquity. It was t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldhill, Simon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:Greek culture in the Roman world.
Subjects:
Time perception > History > To 1500.
Time > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Time > Social aspects > History > To 1500.
Time > History > To 1500.
Time > Philosophy > History.
Classical literature > Themes, motives.
Time in literature.
Temps > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Temps > Philosophie > Histoire.
Littérature ancienne > Thèmes, motifs.
Temps dans la littérature.
Time.
Time perception.
Time > Philosophy.
Time > Social aspects.
To 1500
History.
Table of Contents:
  • God's time
  • The time of death
  • Telling time
  • Waiting
  • Time and time again
  • Making time visible
  • At the same time
  • Timelessness and the now
  • Life times
  • The rape of time
  • Beginning, again: Nonnus' paraphrase of the Gospel of John
  • The eternal return: Nonnus' Dionysiaca
  • Regulation time: Gregory's Christmas day
  • Day to day
  • "We are the times": making history Christian
  • Coda: writing in the time of sickness.