Our cluster on Time begins with Augustine’s Confessions , one of the most widely read books of of the most widely read books of late antiquity, written in the last years of the Roman Empire. On the one hand, the book is autobiographical, describing (sometimes in very personal detail) Augustine’s childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, culminating in his conversion and commitment to Christianity in his early thirties. On the other hand, especially in its less often read final chapters, the book is a philosophical and theological exploration of what allows a person to change over time — and, in particular, a meditation on the nature of time itself. Suzanne and Chris explore Augustine’s fraught relationships to his friends and family, and they begin to unpack the ways time structures and informs the book.