Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

Bobby Xinyue is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. His research is on Latin literature of the Augustan age and its reception in the early modern period. He has published journal articles and book-chapters on Cicero, Virgil and Propertius, as well as on Renaissance Latin poets such as Battista Mantovano. He has recently co-edited Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil’s Georgics (Bloomsbury, 2019); and is currently one of the series editors for the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series. His current research project examines the reception of Ovid’s Fasti in the Renaissance.

• List of ContributorsIntroduction, Bobby Xinyue (King's College London, UK)Part I. The Presence of Time1. Dialectic at a Standstill: Homer, Image and the Nature of Temporality, Ahuvia Khane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)2. Historical Ontology, Texts and Interpretation: Protagorean Reflections, Duncan Kennedy (University of Bristol, UK)3. Roman Temporalities of Presence, James Ker (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Part II. Time, Space, and Relations in Greek Literature4.'… how you first went over the earth': Interactions of Human and Divine Time in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Anke Walter (University of Newcastle, UK)5. The Apotheosis of Time: Challenging Tradition and Anachromism in Pherecydes' Heptamychos, Susannah Ashton (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)6. Pindar and the Nature of Contemplation, David Fearn (University of Warwick, UK)Part III. Temporal Patterns and the Politics of Latin Literature7. Rivers as the Embodiment of Disrupted Time: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Ecological Chronotopes, and the Apocalypse, Rebecca Batty (University of Nottingham, UK)8. More Than a Lifetime: Temporal Patterns in Roman Biography - Nepos, Tacitus, Suetonius, Martin Stöckinger (University of Cologne, Germany)9. Short Long/Long Short: Brevity, Power and Epigrammatic Temporality, Tom Geue (The Australian National University, Australia)Part IV. The End of Time10. The Day of Reckoning: Seneca’s Epistolary Time, Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)11. Endangering the Christian Age: Ovid's Fasti and the Annunciation in Renaissance Poetic Calendars, Bobby Xinyue (King's College London, UK)12. Respice finem. Fast-Forwarding to the End of Time in Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Milton and Early 18th Century Poems on the Last Judgement, Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge, UK)NotesBibliographyIndex

A stimulating set of reflections on time as it is crafted and conceived across a range literary and philosophical genres. This is a book made to last.