Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : : futures past from Herodotus to Augustine / / Jonas Grethlein, Universitat Heidelberg.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge ;, New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
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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.