Kairos relief von lysippos biography

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For other uses, see Kairos (disambiguation).

For the Greek personification of opportunity, see Caerus.

Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment.

The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos.

Eigenes Foto einer eigenen Kopie (von ) der im Kreuzgang des Johannesklosters von Trogir ausgestellten antiken Kopie des Kairos-Reliefs von Lysippos, der es.

Roman work after the original by Lysippos ca.

Characterised the accomplishments of the sculptor Lysippos of Sicyon, who had lived some years earlier.

The focus is on a particular statue, depicting the»opportune moment«or Kairos, created by the Greek sculptor Lysippos and dating from the era of Alexander the.

The bronze Kairos statue known in literature and made by the famous Greek sculptor Lysippos from Sikyon, was probably the model for the relief from Trogir.

While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time in between, a moment of undetermined period of time in which something special happens. What the special something is depends on who is using the word.

While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative nature.^[1]

In rhetoric

Kairos was central to the Sophists, who stressed the rhetor's ability to adapt to and take advantage of changing, contingent circumstances.

In Panathenaicus, Isocrates writes that educated people are those “who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day by day, and who possess a judgement which is accurate in meeting occasions as t