Description
Applies various contemporary theoretical approaches to temporality and its limits, bringing a robust theoretical underpinning to the subject that is lacking in other works.
The focus on the Greek and Roman world allows for a more detailed investigation into the subject in those cultures.
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.
