Late Antiquity witnessed a revolution in textuality. Numerous new technologies transformed the practices through which readers accessed written knowledge. Editors reconfigured existing works order to facilitate modes of access and possibilities Despite recent investigations late ancient knowing, tables contents have been neglected. Addressing this lacuna, I analyze two examples from early fourt...

In the Western tradition, life has been defined within idea of reflexivity and unity. These two features are intertwined in what I call Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm autarchy, which living beings primarily as self-sufficient entities. The perfect being, thus, will be most autarchic, one that can achieve unity its own self- referred dynamics. This being is God, theology (both Greek Christian) conc...

Augustine follows a Platonic method in his treatment of time in Confessions XI. The 'in principio' of Genesis is the theme of the book and introduces the problem of the relation of time to the divine in a most direct way. The argument then centres on the problem that the present has no extension: "praesens autem nullum habet spatium" (XI, 15). The problem having been solved Augustine concludes ...