The third day was dedicated to the concept of time according to the Greek poet Hesiod (seventh century BC), in the seminar held by Assoc. Prof. Maria-Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest). The students in Classics read and translated the ancient Greek passages of „Theogonia" 154-198, showing the perspectives of primordial temporality. TIme is seen as a linear, divine construct, but also as a cyclical movement, submitted to fate. Through repetitive movements, Ouranos (heaven), the eternal present, hides the future under the earth (Gaia): he buries his offspring into the depths of the earth; there is the day and night circle, but also the repetition of monstrous acts, the excessive sexuality. By castrating Ouranos, the new present (represented by Kronos) separates himself from the past, but also sacrifices the future: Kronos (god of time), swallows his offspring. Zeus separates the three temporal instances: he throws his father - the past - into Tartarus (seen as a kind of perpetuum mobile, an archive of gods in eternal stasis, a secret dungeon of oblivion) and has the power to let the future manifest itself, through the great number of his children. The students analyzed the ways of expressing these temporal perspectives and proposed different translation options.
