title: Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography  Chapter 1 - Introduction
creator: Grethlein, Jonas
subject: ddc-870
subject: 870 Italic literatures Latin
subject: ddc-880
subject: 880 Hellenic literatures Classical Greek
description: 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.
publisher: Cambridge Universitiy Press
date: 2013
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
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identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20326/1/ExperienceTeleology_ChapterI_Introduction.pdf
identifier: DOI:
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-203265
identifier:   Grethlein, Jonas  (2013) Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography Chapter 1 - Introduction.  [Book Section]     
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language: eng