Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece (Chronoi, 15)

Marie-Louise Bech Nosch’s Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece (2025), published in the Chronoi series and based on the 2022 annual lecture of the Einstein Center Chronoi in Berlin, is a short but conceptually ambitious study that explores how textiles and clothing articulate experiences of time in the ancient Greek world. Rather than treating time primarily through political chronology or show more calendrical systems, Nosch proposes that textile production and dress reveal alternative temporal frameworks embedded in everyday practice, ritual life, and bodily experience. show less