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THE CHRISTIAN INVENTION OF TIME Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people’srelationshipwithtimehasbeentransformedthroughindus- trialization, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity’s influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualized in new ways,withdiscussionofeternity,lifeafterdeathandtheendofdays. Individualsalsobegantoexperiencetimedifferently:fromtheseven- day week to the order of daily prayer and the festal calendar of Christmas and Easter. With trademark flair and versatility, world- renownedclassicistSimonGoldhilluncoversthischangeinthinking. Heexploreshowittookshapeintheliterarywritingoflateantiquity and how it resonates even today. His bold new cultural history will appeal to scholars and students of classics, cultural history, literary studiesandearlyChristianityalike. simon goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College, as well as Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. He is one of the best-known classicistsofhisgenerationwhohaslecturedallovertheworld,and he has appeared on TV and radio from Canada to Australia. His books have been translated into ten languages and have won three internationalprizes. greek culture in the roman world series editors JAŚELSNER,UniversityofOxford SIMONGOLDHILL,UniversityofCambridge CONSTANZEGÜTHENKE,UniversityofOxford MICHAELSQUIRE,King’sCollegeLondon FoundingEditors SUSANE.ALCOCK JAŚELSNER SIMONGOLDHILL TheGreekcultureoftheRomanempireoffersarichfieldofstudy.Extraordinary insights can be gained into processes of multicultural contact and exchange, political and ideological conflict, and the creativity of a changing, polyglot empire. During this period, many fundamental elements of Western society werebeingsetinplace:fromthe riseofChristianity,toaninfluentialsystemof education, to long-lived artistic canons. This series is the first to focus on the response of Greek culture to its Roman imperial setting as a significant phenomenon in its own right. To this end, it will publish original and innovative research in the art, archaeology, epigraphy, history, philosophy, religionandliteratureoftheempire,withanemphasisonGreekmaterial. Recenttitlesintheseries: TheChristianInventionofTime:TemporalityandtheLiteratureofLateAntiquity SimonGoldhill TheMoonintheGreekandRomanImagination:Myth,Literature,Scienceand Philosophy KarenníMheallaigh TheResurrectionofHomerinImperialGreekEpic:QuintusSmyrnaeus’Posthomerica andthePoeticsofImpersonation EmmaGreensmith Oppian’sHalieutica:ChartingaDidacticEpic EmilyKneebone PreposterousPoetics:ThePoliticsandAestheticsofForminLateAntiquity SimonGoldhill TheAestheticsofHopeinLateGreekImperialLiterature:MethodiusofOlympus’ SymposiumandtheCrisisoftheThirdCentury DawnLaValleNorman GreekEpigramandByzantineCulture:Gender,Desire,andDenialintheAgeof Justinian StevenD.Smith Painting,Ethics,andAestheticsinRome NathanielB.Jones DionysiusofHalicarnassusandAugustanRome:Rhetoric,Criticismand Historiography EditedbyRichardHunterandCasperC.deJonge AuthorandAudienceinVitruvius’Dearchitectura MardenFitzpatrickNichols THE CHRISTIAN INVENTION OF TIME Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity SIMON GOLDHILL UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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THE CHRISTIAN INVENTION OF TIME Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people’srelationshipwithtimehasbeentransformedthroughindus- trialization, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity’s influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualized in new ways,withdiscussionofeternity,lifeafterdeathandtheendofdays. Individualsalsobegantoexperiencetimedifferently:fromtheseven- day week to the order of daily prayer and the festal calendar of Christmas and Easter. With trademark flair and versatility, world- renownedclassicistSimonGoldhilluncoversthischangeinthinking. Heexploreshowittookshapeintheliterarywritingoflateantiquity and how it resonates even today. His bold new cultural history will appeal to scholars and students of classics, cultural history, literary studiesandearlyChristianityalike. simon goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College, as well as Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. He is one of the best-known classicistsofhisgenerationwhohaslecturedallovertheworld,and he has appeared on TV and radio from Canada to Australia. His books have been translated into ten languages and have won three internationalprizes. greek culture in the roman world series editors JAŚELSNER,UniversityofOxford SIMONGOLDHILL,UniversityofCambridge CONSTANZEGÜTHENKE,UniversityofOxford MICHAELSQUIRE,King’sCollegeLondon FoundingEditors SUSANE.ALCOCK JAŚELSNER SIMONGOLDHILL TheGreekcultureoftheRomanempireoffersarichfieldofstudy.Extraordinary insights can be gained into processes of multicultural contact and exchange, political and ideological conflict, and the creativity of a changing, polyglot empire. During this period, many fundamental elements of Western society werebeingsetinplace:fromthe riseofChristianity,toaninfluentialsystemof education, to long-lived artistic canons. This series is the first to focus on the response of Greek culture to its Roman imperial setting as a significant phenomenon in its own right. To this end, it will publish original and innovative research in the art, archaeology, epigraphy, history, philosophy, religionandliteratureoftheempire,withanemphasisonGreekmaterial. Recenttitlesintheseries: TheChristianInventionofTime:TemporalityandtheLiteratureofLateAntiquity SimonGoldhill TheMoonintheGreekandRomanImagination:Myth,Literature,Scienceand Philosophy KarenníMheallaigh TheResurrectionofHomerinImperialGreekEpic:QuintusSmyrnaeus’Posthomerica andthePoeticsofImpersonation EmmaGreensmith Oppian’sHalieutica:ChartingaDidacticEpic EmilyKneebone PreposterousPoetics:ThePoliticsandAestheticsofForminLateAntiquity SimonGoldhill TheAestheticsofHopeinLateGreekImperialLiterature:MethodiusofOlympus’ SymposiumandtheCrisisoftheThirdCentury DawnLaValleNorman GreekEpigramandByzantineCulture:Gender,Desire,andDenialintheAgeof Justinian StevenD.Smith Painting,Ethics,andAestheticsinRome NathanielB.Jones DionysiusofHalicarnassusandAugustanRome:Rhetoric,Criticismand Historiography EditedbyRichardHunterandCasperC.deJonge AuthorandAudienceinVitruvius’Dearchitectura MardenFitzpatrickNichols
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