Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : futures past from Herodotus to Augustine /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grethlein, Jonas, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
History, Ancient > Historiography.
Rhetoric, Ancient > Historiography.
History > Methodology.
Histoire ancienne > Historiographie.
Rhétorique ancienne > Historiographie.
Histoire > Méthodologie.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
History, Ancient > Historiography
History > Methodology
Rhetoric, Ancient > Historiography
Antike
Geschichtsschreibung
Methode
Griechenland > Altertum
Römisches Reich
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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