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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grethlein, Jonas, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.