Book contents
- The Christian Invention of Time
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Christian Invention of Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations of Ancient Sources
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter 1 God’s Time
- Chapter 2 The Time of Death
- Chapter 3 Telling Time
- Chapter 4 Waiting
- Chapter 5 Time and Time Again
- Chapter 6 Making Time Visible
- Chapter 7 At the Same Time
- Chapter 8 Timelessness and the Now
- Chapter 9 Life-times
- Chapter 10 The Rape of Time
- Part II
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Chapter 6 - Making Time Visible
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- The Christian Invention of Time
- Greek Culture in the Roman World
- The Christian Invention of Time
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations of Ancient Sources
- Introduction
- Part I
- Chapter 1 God’s Time
- Chapter 2 The Time of Death
- Chapter 3 Telling Time
- Chapter 4 Waiting
- Chapter 5 Time and Time Again
- Chapter 6 Making Time Visible
- Chapter 7 At the Same Time
- Chapter 8 Timelessness and the Now
- Chapter 9 Life-times
- Chapter 10 The Rape of Time
- Part II
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Summary
For any discussion of the politics of history evoked thus by typology it is basic to ask how a community – a city, a nation, a sect – curates its memory.
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- The Christian Invention of TimeTemporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, pp. 113 - 131Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022