Visualizing Time
Published • Oct 24, 2024
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Authors:
SeungJung Kim
Abstract
Abstract The Greeks had two words for time: the measurable, uniform time that is chronos, and the hard-to-grasp, opportune moment that is kairos. As the sole visual personification of a time concept in Classical and Early Hellenistic Greece, the celebrated sculpture of Kairos by Lysippos embodies th...