The document discusses the Greek concepts of kairos and chronos, and how they relate to temporal experience and the languages used to describe time. Specifically, it references how the antithesis between kairos and chronos is present in the Greek Septuagint, but the relationship between temporal experience and language is complicated. It also cites a book by Frank Kermode that discusses kairos and chronos.
The document discusses the Greek concepts of kairos and chronos, and how they relate to temporal experience and the languages used to describe time. Specifically, it references how the antithesis between kairos and chronos is present in the Greek Septuagint, but the relationship between temporal experience and language is complicated. It also cites a book by Frank Kermode that discusses kairos and chronos.
The document discusses the Greek concepts of kairos and chronos, and how they relate to temporal experience and the languages used to describe time. Specifically, it references how the antithesis between kairos and chronos is present in the Greek Septuagint, but the relationship between temporal experience and language is complicated. It also cites a book by Frank Kermode that discusses kairos and chronos.
'one damn thing after another' and time as concentrated in kairoi.
1 This is of course complicated by the fact that Smith refers to the
Greek Septuagint, in which the antithesis between kairos and chronos is obviously present.`Nevertheless, the relationship between temporal experience and the languages in which such
1 Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 47-8.
The Judgement of Paris in Later Byzantine Literature Author(s) : Elizabeth M. Jeffreys Source: Byzantion, 1978, Vol. 48, No. 1 (1978), Pp. 112-131 Published By: Peeters Publishers