Experience and teleology in ancient historiography: 'futures past' from Herodotus to Augustine
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2013
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
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| Author Notes: | Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg University) |
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.