Pasts and Future Pasts in the Hellenistic Worlds

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2017
The course will focus on the development of new notions of time over the course of the Hellenistic period in conjunction with other cultural, political, and social dynamics. The theme will be explored through the reading of primary texts belonging to several different genres (historiographies, apocalyptic literature, ethnographies, and so on) in connection with theoretical reflections on the articulation of time and on the practices associated with it. Prerequisite: Working knowledge of Greek and/or Hebrew.