Jonas Grethlein

Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the tension in ancient historiography between teleological design and narrating the past as it was experienced by historical characters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9781107040281
• ISBN-10: 1107040280
• Artikelnr.: 38612079

Autorenporträt

Jonas Grethlein holds the Chair in Greek Literature at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His recent publications include The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE (2010) and, co-edited with Christopher B. Krebs, Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The 'Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: futures past: historiography between experience and teleology
Part I. Experience: Making the Past Present: 1. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
2. Xenophon, Anabasis
3. Plutarch, Alexander
4. Tacitus, Annals
Part II. Teleology: The Power of Retrospect: 5. Herodotus, Histories
6. Polybius, Histories
7. Sallust, Bellum Catilinae
Part III. Beyond Experience and Teleology: 8. Augustine, Confessions
Epilogue: experience in modern historiography.