“Saving Time” Seems Like a Foolish Optimization

Instead … what do we want?

Greater adventures, dangers, challenges, conquests.

Notions of “time”, “efficiency”, etc … just modern day Taylorism in action?

For the ancient Greeks, there was no real notion of “time“. There were no stopwatches, no clocks, no notion of seconds, minutes, hours, etc. There were only notions of sunrise, sundown.

Even when it came to speed, the closest thing that we have is looking at the Iliad, the funeral games, in which there was a chariot race, as well as a sprinting foot race.

Also, no real good measurements of weight. The way that Homer describes the strength of Achilles is his ability to lift a stone that barely even two strong men could lift.