Kairos. L'à-propos et l'occasion. Le mot et la notion, d'Homère à la fin du IVe siècle avant J.-C. Archéologie approximately 5

approximately 5

Lenormant on copper and gold coins

dans un autre monde

from the splendor of the demi-mondaines to the misery of the "piercing women

Using precise documents

Kairos. L'à-propos et l'occasion. Le mot et la notion, d'Homère à la fin du IVe siècle avant J.-C. Archéologie approximately 5In Homer's time, the Greek word kairos designated a neuralgic place in the body, a critical point. How did it soon come to mean occasion, and, in modern Greek, time? When, in Greece in the 5th century BC, the human sciencesmedicine, politics, rhetoricwere born, they sought to develop an art of forecasting and prognosis and saw the mastery of kairos as the key to success. By what means did physicians and orators attempt to capture this multifaceted and