Greek Culture in the Roman World #: The Christian Invention of Time

Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

Greek Culture in the Roman World #: The Christian Invention of Time
Simon Goldhill
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3 Feb 2022 UK
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9781316512906
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Time is integral 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 life-changing transformation - under Christianity' s influence - happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of days. Individuals also began to experience time differently: from the seven-day week to the order of daily prayer and the festal calendar of Christmas and Easter. With trademark flair and versatility, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill uncovers this change in thinking. He explores how it took shape in the literary writing of late antiquity and how it resonates even today. His bold new cultural history will appeal to scholars and students of classics, cultural history, literary studies, and early Christianity alike.

Christian Invention of Time, The: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity
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Homer in Stone: The Tabulae Iliacae in Their Roman Context
Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World
Oppian's Halieutica: Charting a Didactic Epic
Philostratus
Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire, The: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor
Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity
Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity
Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic, The
Rethinking the Gods: Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult and Community
Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture
Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire, The: Sophists, Philosophers, and Christians
Women and Visual Replication in Roman Imperial Art and Culture

Simon Goldhill is a Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King' s College, as well as the Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. He is one of the best-known classicists of his generation who has lectured all over the world, and he has appeared on TV and radio from Canada to Australia. His books have been translated into ten languages and have won three international prizes.
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ISBN-13: 9781316512906
Published: 3 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 159mm
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 850g
Pages: 516

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