Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : "futures past" from Herodotus to Augustine /
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Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.