Experience and teleology in ancient historiography 'futures past' from Herodotus to Augustine / Jonas Grethlein, Universitat Heidelberg.

Author/creator Grethlein, Jonas, 1978-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxi, 422 pages ; 23 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 368-396) and indexes.
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LCCN 2013009541
ISBN9781107040281 (hardback)

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