Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : futures past from Herodotus to Augustine /
The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension betwe...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Futures past: historiography between experience and teleology
- Experience: making the past present
- Thucydides, The history of the Peloponnesian War
- Xenophon, Anabasis
- Plutarch, Alexander
- Tacitus, Annals
- Teleology: the power of retrospect
- Herodotus, Histories
- Polybius, Histories
- Sallust, Bellum catilinae
- Beyond experience and teleology
- Augustine, Confessions
- Epilogue: experience in modern historiography.