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Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography /
From the early modern period, Greek historiography has been studied in the context of Cicero's notion historia magistra vitae and considered to exclude conceptions of the future as different from the present and past. Comparisons with the Roman, Judeo-Christian and modern historiography have so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
2016.
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| Colección: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
v. 32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Futures of Greek Historiography
- Future Times and the Poetics of Greek Historiography
- Ancient Historiography and 'Future Past'
- Futures Real and Unreal in Greek Historiography
- Between Thucydides and the Future: Narrative Prolepsis and Xenophon's Concept of Historiography
- Knowing Future Time in Xenophon's Anabasis
- Knowledge and Foresight in Polybius
- Preparing for Posterity: Dionysius and Polybius
- Temporalities of the Future and the Times of Historical Action
- The Future and the Logic of Closure in Greek Historiography
- No Future? Possibilities and Permanence in Herodotus' Histories
- Fading into the Future: Visibility and Legibility in Thucydides' History
- Shifting Endings, Ambiguity and Deferred Closure in Polybius' Histories
- Plutarch on the Future of an Ancient World
- Future's Bright? Looking Forward in Appian
- Writing for Posterity in Ancient Historiography: Lucian's Perspective
- Toward the Modern Futures of Greek Times
- On the Shoulders of Greeks? Future Time in Livy's Ab urbe condita
- Constituting the Modern World as the Future of Greek Antiquity
- Horoscopes of Empires: Future Ruins from Thucydides to Macaulay
- Historiographic Ancients and Moderns: The Difference between Thucydides and Ranke
- The Western Futures of Ancient History
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.