Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity

James Ker, Ph.D. (2002), University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published books and articles on Seneca and on Roman conceptions of time.Antje Wessels, Dr. phil. (2001), University of Heidelberg, Habilitation (2011), Free University Berlin, is Full Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University. She has published books on aesthetic theory, history of scholarship and reception of antiquity.Contributors are: Adrienne Atkins, Amelia Bensch-Schaus, Kim Beerden, Cynthia Damon, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Albert Joosse, Barbara Kellum, Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten, Christoph Pieper, Isabella Reinhardt, Ralph M. Rosen, Jane Sancinito, Selina Weissmantel, Kathryn Wilson

• Introduction: The Values of Nighttime in Classical AntiquityAntje Wessels and James KerPart 1 Who or What Is the Night?1 Night as Measure, Mother, and Metaphor in the Hesiodic CosmosAdrienne Atkins2 First-Born of Night or Oozing from the Slime? Deviant Origins in Orphic CosmogoniesRadcliffe G. Edmonds IIIPart 2 Nocturnal Knowledge: Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy3 Night as Diagnostic Marker in Hippocratic MedicineRalph M. Rosen4 Nights of Insight: Plato on the Philosophical Qualities of the NightAlbert Joosse5 Night’s Fictions: The Religious Institutions of Numa in Lucilius fr. 484–489 (Marx)Cynthia Damon6 The Astronomer-Poet at Night: The Evolution of a MotifKathryn WilsonPart 3 Society and Gender: Men and Women at Work, by Night7 A Night Attack in the Seven Against ThebesIsabella Reinhardt8 Tragedy of Darkness: The Role of Night in Euripides’ RhesusMarie-Charlotte von Lehsten9 The Witching Hour: Wakeful Women at Work in Homer, Apollonius, and TheocritusAmelia Bensch-Schaus10 Nox rei publicae? Catiline’s and Cicero’s Nocturnal Activities in the CatilinariansChristoph Pieper11 Inn-Dependent: Spending the Night in a Hostel in the Roman WorldJane SancinitoPart 4 Experiencing by Night12 Better Safe Than Sorry: Nocturnal Divinatory Signs from a First-Century BCE Roman PerspectiveKim Beerden13 Through the Eyes of the Night: Ecphrasis of Nocturnal Ambush Scenes in Roman Epic and HistoriographySelina Weissmantel14 Nocturnal Negotiations: Experiencing the Night Scenes from the Iliad at the House of Octavius Quartio, Pompeii II 2.2Barbara Kellum15 Persius’ Nocturnal Inspiration in the Light of DayJennifer Ferriss-HillIndex