The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance and challenges of accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship - philosophical, technological, literary, social historical and anthropological - on ancient attitudes to time, and presents them in accessible form.

Peter N. Singer, Research Fellow at EC-Chronoi, Berlin, and at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.