Description
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.
This collection serves as a meditation on the different ways that cosmological and experiential time are construed, measured, and manipulated in Greek and Latin literature. It explores both the kinds of time deemed worthy of measurement, as well as time that escapes notice. Likewise, it interrogates how linear time and its representation become politicized and leveraged in the service of emerging and dominant power structures. These essays showcase various contemporary theoretical approaches to temporality in order to build bridges and expose chasms between ancient and modern ideologies of time. Some of the areas explored include the philosophical and social implications of time that is not measured, the i
Table of Contents
Introduction; I. Out of Time; 1. “Now, Sleep,” Alex Purves and Victoria Wohl; 2. “Untold Times? A Page from Galen,” James Ker; II. Engendering Time; 3. “Fertile Pasts and Sterile Futures in Euripides’ Andromache,” Sarah Olsen, 4. “The History of Sexuality in Xenophon’s Symposium,” Kate Gilhuly; 5. “Materna Tempora: Gestational Time and the Ovidian Poetics of Delay,” Caitlin Hines; III. Shaping Time; 6. “The Politics of Epinician Time,” Nigel Nicholson; 7. “But now…The Temporality of Archaic Invective Poetry,” Kirk Ormand; 8. “Wasting Time with Petronius,” Jeffrey Ulrich; 9. “The Roman Poetics of Decline,” Andreas Zanker; IV. Beyond Time; 10. “Greek Ghosts and Roman Imperial Temporalities,” Robert Cioffi; 11. “Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime (Proto-Gospel of James 18),” Patrick Glauthier.
