ÉPUISÉ - Time and Temporality in the Ancient Word, 2004, 200 p. -

Considering the topic of time in antiquity, juxtaposing cultures and societies, yields remarkable intersections, continuities and discontinuities in the ways people have engaged with temporality. One of the most persistent dichotomies we find across many pre-modern societies is that between cyclical and teleological time-time marching inexorably forward, toward a goal, and the markers of nature that seem repetitive, cyclical and fundamentally stable. Over the millennia much ingenuity has been directed at these models. Subjects of specific range from the construction of time and space in prehistory, Roman Britain, quantifications of time in Assyria and Babylonia, through aspects of time in classical India, the Hebrew Bible, China, Greece, and the Roman Empire.