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CRISES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

provide a résumé of the observations of the preceding chapters. Notes, references and a substantial index conclude the book. This is a very timely publication, filling an important gap by showing convincingly and with an astonishingly wide range of reading from Homer to the twenty-first century that anachronisms, far from being alien to antiquity, on the contrary offer valuable insights into the historical thought of classical times, and also into Greek and Roman art and literature. The main focus, however, lies on demonstrating ancient awareness of anachronisms and the consequences of this observation for our picture of classical antiquity and of the various historical processes that have constructed this particular view. This not only encourages, but also leaves enough room for further contributions dealing with more detailed questions like the role of anachronisms played in individual works (see e.g. P. Geitner, Anachronismus und Aktualisierung in Ovids “Metamorphosen”. Zu einer Ästhetik uneigentlicher Zeitlichkeit [2021]) or the impact they could have on the individual reader or viewer (see e.g. A. Junghanß, B. Kaiser and D. Pausch [edd.], Zeitmontagen: Formen und Funktionen gezielter Anachronismen [2019]). That a work like the last one has already been published, although too late to be taken into account here, must not be seen only as the usual synchronism of academic endeavours, but also as further evidence that we live in times that favour anachronisms.