In: Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography. Cambridge, Cambridge Universitiy Press 2013, i-26 . ISBN 9781107040281
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Abstract
The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, 'Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography' offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.
Document type: | Book Section |
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Title of Book: | Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography |
Publisher: | Cambridge Universitiy Press |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge |
Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2016 10:34 |
Date: | 2013 |
ISBN: | 9781107040281 |
Page Range: | i-26 |
Faculties / Institutes: | Philosophische Fakultät > Seminar für klassische Philologie |
DDC-classification: | 870 Italic literatures Latin 880 Hellenic literatures Classical Greek |
Additional Information: | http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/experience-and-teleology-ancient-historiography-futures-past-herodotus-augustine?format=HB |