The western time of ancient history: historiographical encounters with the Greek and Roman pasts

"This book examines the conceptual and temporal frames through which modern Western historiography has linked itself to classical antiquity. In doing so, it articulates a genealogical problematic of what history is and a more strictly focused reappraisal of Greek and Roman historical thought. A...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lianeri, Alexandra (HerausgeberIn)
Dokumenttyp: Sammelband
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2011
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
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Verfasserangaben:ed. by Alexandra Lianeri
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction. Unfounding times: the idea and ideal of ancient history in Western historical thought Alexandra Lianeri
  • Theorising Western Time: Concepts and Models: 1. Time's authority François Hartog; 2. Exemplarity and anti-exemplarity in Early Modern Europe
  • Ancient History and Modern Temporalities: 5. The making of a bourgeois antiquity. Wilhelm von Humboldt and Greek history Stefan Rebenich; 6. Modern histories of Ancient Greece: genealogies, contexts and eighteenth-century narrative historiography
  • Unfounding Time In and Through Ancient Historical Thought: 10. Thucydides and social change: between akribeia and universality Rosalind Thomas; 11. Historia magistra vitae in Herodotus and Thucydides?: the exemplary use of the past, and ancient and modern temporalities
  • Afterword: 14. Ancient history in the eighteenth century Oswyn Murray; 15. Seeing in and through time