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CONTENT
PROLOGUE..................................................................................................15.. 15
I . TIME IN ARISTOTLE PROTREPTICUS. INTRODUCTION AND QUESIONS FOR DISCUSSION....19 19
a. From
eternity to temporality: on
initiation...................27 27
b. From temporality to eternity: wisdom
over the long term.....42 42
II. TIME
IN GREEK TRAGIC POETRY AND IN THE EPIC POETRY OF HOMER. UNFINDABLE CIRCULAR TIME...51.. 51
a. On fate, or tragic poetry as a
technique for veiling time.......55 55
b. On the hero, or epic poetry as a
technique for unveiling time.....65 65
III. TIME
IN HESIOD’S MYTHOLGY AND PYTHAGOREAN THEOPHANY. SACRED SOURCES OF
CIRCULAR
TIME IN CLASSICALGREECE............80 80
a. On the myth of Cronos or the structuring of universal time in “ages of
the world”.....82 82
b. On
the Pythagorean mysteries, or the
structuring of human time in phases of life independent of bodily unity.........107 unity..........................................................................................................................................107. 107
IV. FROM
PLATONIC MYTIC TIME TO IONIAN SCIENTIFIC TIME: THE ROOTS OF
ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF TIME...122
.. 122
a. On Platonic ideology, or mythic time
as an attempt to veil initiatory time...125 125
b. On
Ionian astronomic science, or the
coming of conceptual time, opening the world to the
future...155 154
BIBIOGRAPHY.................................................................................212.. 212
INDEX..........................................................................................233
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