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Subject(s)

• Classical literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Time in literature [Browse]

Editor

• Gilhuly, Kate, 1964- [Browse]
• Ulrich, Jeffrey P. [Browse]

Series

Routledge monographs in classical studies. [More in this series]

Summary note

"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. This collection serves as a meditation on the different ways that cosmological and experiential time are construed, measured, and manipulated in Greek and Latin literature. It explores both the kinds of time deemed worthy of measurement as well as time that escapes notice. Likewise, it interrogates how linear time and its representation become politicized and leveraged in the service of emerging and dominant power structures. These essays showcase various contemporary theoretical approaches to temporality in order to build bridges and expose chasms between ancient and modern ideologies of time. Some of the areas explored include the philosophical and social implications of time that is not measured, the insights and limitations provided by queer theory for an investigation of the way sex and gender relate to time, the relationship of time to power, the extent to which temporal discourses intersect with spatial constructs, and finally an exploration of experiences that exceed the boundaries of time. Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature is of interest to scholars of time and temporality in the ancient world, as well as those working on time and temporality in English Literature, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, and Gender and Sexuality. It is also suitable for those working on Greek and Roman literature and culture more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I Out of Time
• 1 Now, Sleep
• 2 Untold Times? A Page From Galen
• II Engendering Time
• 3 Fertile Pasts and Sterile Futures in Euripides' Andromache
• 4 The History of Sexuality in Xenophon's Symposium
• 5 Materna Tempora: Gestational Time and the Ovidian Poetics of Delay
• III Shaping Time
• 6 Hieron of Syracuse and the Politics of Epinician Time
• 7 "But Now": The Temporality of Archaic Greek Invective
• 8 Wasting Time With Petronius 9 The Metaphors and Poetics of Roman Decline
• IV Beyond Time
• 10 Greek Ghosts and Roman Imperial Time
• 11 Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime: Proto-Gospel of James 18
• Index.

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ISBN

1-003-38538-9

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