Jonas Grethlein

Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781108820264
• ISBN-10: 1108820263
• Artikelnr.: 59510672

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.