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

• Main Author: Grethlein, Jonas, 1978- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• Subjects: Ιστορία, Αρχαία > Ιστοριογραφία; Ιστορία > Μεθοδολογία

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.