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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.850kg ISBN: 9781316512906ISBN 10: 1316512908 Pages: 516 Publication Date: 03 February 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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.Reviews'Though the essays can be read and appreciated separately, Goodhill has done an excellent job of choosing the essay topics: readers gain a solid appreciation for the Christian influence on the narratives of late antiquity and their significance for the development of concepts of time. … Highly recommended.' E. Kincanon, Choice '… Goldhill has a huge amount to teach us about the Christianization of literary genres, especially with reference to time in (generally) the fourth and fifth centuries AD … No review of reasonable length can do justice to the richness of Goldhill's project or its importance.' John Rist, Augustiniana Author InformationSimon 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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