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This collection of 24 essays provides the first comprehensive study of the way the passing of time, temporal setting, and the relationship between past, present, and future are presented in diverse genres of ancient Greek literature over the span of nearly a millennium.
List of contents
- 1: Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha: Introduction: Time, Tense, and Genre through the Ages
- Section A. Divine and Human Time
- 2: Esther Eidinow: Divine and Human Narratives: Time and Being
- 3: Tobias Myers: Evoking the Eternal: Perspective and Paradox in Iliadic Warfare
- 4: Peter Moench: Bending Time: Divine Transcendence and Mortal Limits in Pindar's Nemean 6
- 5: Isobel Higgins: Sensing the Future in Lycophron's Alexandra
- 6: Edith Hall: One Precise Day c.547 : Playing with Time in Lucian's Charon
- Section B. Temporalities of Knowledge
- 7: Carlo Delle Donne: Time and Genre: Cosmology and Verbal Tenses in Ancient Greek Literature
- 8: Edith Hall: Nine Thousand Years Ago: The Erasure of the Navy from Plato's Atlantis Fictions
- 9: Dimitar Dragnev: Aesop and the Future
- 10: Alessandro Vatri: The Living Past: Tense and Genre in the Critical Essays of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- 11: Tobias Joho: Tense Usage and Temporal Form in Herodotean Conversation Scenes
- 12: Keating P. J. McKeon: Perseid Wars and Notional Nostos in Herodotus' Histories
- 13: Alessandro Vatri: Croak around the Clock: The Times and Tenses of Classical Attic Oratory
- 14: Brian McPhee: Ethnography in the Past Tense: The Amazons in Apollonius' Argonautica
- 15: Kenneth W. Yu: Aetiology and Temporal Regimes in Greek Hymnic and Ethnographic Literature
- Section C. Present and Presence
- 16: Sheila Murnaghan: The Singularity of the Tragic Day
- 17: Edith Hall: Tragic Temporalities in Euripides' Trojan Women
- 18: Marcus Bell: Cruel Futurity in Euripides' Bacchae: Dance, Impasse, Ecstasy
- 19: Devan Turner: Silenus and the Chorus of Satyr Drama as Time Travellers
- 20: Peter Swallow: The Past in a Present Genre: Nostalgia in Aristophanes
- 21: Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha: Bardic Temporalities: Performing, Creating, and Contesting Time
- 22: Alex Purves: Sappho, Alcman, and the 'Lyric Present'
- 23: Rioghnach Sachs: Songs for Parties or Parthenoi?: Homoerotic Temporalities and Genre in Sappho and Alcman
- 24: Felix Budelmann: Lyric Imperatives, Consciousness, and the Present on the Move
About the author
Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha is a Lecturer in Classics and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol. Previously, Connie was the Drapers' Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She studied Classics at Oxford, Comparative Literature at Cambridge, and completed her doctorate on syncretic uses of Graeco-Roman antiquity in Northeast-Brazilian popular oral poetry at King's College, London. She continues to work on both Latin American classical receptions and ancient Greek and Latin literature, with particular interests in orality and popular culture. Connie collaborates with contemporary poets and visual artists in the UK, Brazil, and Mexico, and is translating Mexican poet Pura López Colomé's collection
Via Corporis into English.
Edith Hall, Fellow of the British Academy, took up a Chair in Classics at Durham University in 2022, after holding posts at the Universities of Reading, Oxford, Cambridge, Royal Holloway, and King's College London. She has published more than thirty books, broadcasts on the BBC, and acts as consultant to professional theatres including the National Theatre, the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She leads a campaign to increase access to classical subjects within state education. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Athens and Durham Universities, the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy, and Honorary Citizenship of Palermo.
