Iamque dies infanda aderat. Time management, historiografie en de geschiedenis van een narratieve techniek

In Latin historiography, the Latin adverb iam is involved in at least three different narrative techniques. When it signals a temporal overlap with the following context, it creates, as is discussed by Chausserie-Laprée, an atmosphere of dramatic anticipation. It can however also be used to indicate an overlap with preceding events or to signal a narrative acceleration. The latter two techniques may but need not combine with the first one.