Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature

This volume explores various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.

List 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.

About the author

Kate Gilhuly is Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2009), Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (Routledge 2017), and co-editor with Nancy Worman of Place, Space, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture (Cambridge 2014).
Jeffrey P. Ulrich is Assistant Professor of Classics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His first book, The Shadow of an Ass: Philosophical Choice and Aesthetic Experience in Apuleius' Metamorphoses is forthcoming with the University of Michigan Press, and he is also co-editing a volume entitled Ancient Narrative and Reader Response with Luca Graverini and Carlo Caruso (Ancient Narrative, forthcoming).

Product details

• Authors: Kate Ulrich Gilhuly
• Assisted by: Gilhuly Kate (Editor), Jeffrey P. Ulrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032472829
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247282-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Classical texts, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts