Christian Invention of Time - Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

With trademark flair, Simon Goldhill shows how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship with time in ways that resonate today.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I: 1. God's time; 2. The time of death; 3. Telling time; 4. Waiting; 5. Time and time again; 6. Making time visible; 7. At the same time; 8. Timelessness and the now; 9. Life times; 10. The rape of time; Part II: 11. Beginning, again: Nonnus' paraphrase of the Gospel of John; 12. The eternal return: Nonnus' Dionysiaca; 13. Regulation time: Gregory's Christmas Day; 14. Day to day; 15. "We are the times": Making history Christian; Coda: Writing in the time of sickness.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Simon Goldhill, Simon (University of Cambridge) Goldhill, Goldhill Simon
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781316512906
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51290-6
• Seiten: 516
• Serien: Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, The Early Church