The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

by Simon Goldhill

Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, 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 conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of days. Individuals also began to experience time differently:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316512908
• ISBN13: 9781316512906
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"