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Time in Ancient Stories of Origin (Hardcover)
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Time in Ancient Stories of Origin (Hardcover)
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Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating
window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia pervade ancient
literature at all its stages, and connect the past with the present
by telling us which aspects of the past survive "even now" or "ever
since then". Yet, while the standard aetiological formulae remain
surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies
behind stories of origin undergoes profound changes. By studying a
broad range of texts and by closely examining select stories of
origin from archaic Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and
early Christian literature, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin
traces the changing forms of stories of origin and the underlying
changing attitudes to time: to the interaction of the time of gods
and men, to historical time, to change and continuity, as well as
to a time beyond the present one. Walter provides a model of how to
analyse the temporal construction of aetia, by combining close
attention to detail with a view towards the larger temporal agenda
of each work. In the process, new insights are provided both into
some of the best-known aetiological works of antiquity (e.g. by
Hesiod, Callimachus, Vergil, Ovid) and lesser-known works (e.g.
Ephorus, Prudentius, Orosius). This volume shows that aetia do not
merely convey factual information about the continuity of the past,
but implicate the present in ever new complex messages about time.
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