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

1. Verfasser: Goldhill, Simon , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 500 pages ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Greek culture in the Roman world
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Parallelausgabe: Goldhill, Simon., Christian invention of time (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781009071260
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.