Oratorical time management

How the ancient Greeks built (some) fairness into their legal process

The reconstruction of a clay original water clock or klepsydra of the late 5th century BC, on display at the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Ben Franklin may have been the first to articulate in the modern period the idea that time is a non-renewable commodity, that ‘time is money’, but he was by no means the first to recognise the importance of time in s…