eprintid: 20326
rev_number: 13
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datestamp: 2016-02-26 10:34:10
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creators_name: Grethlein, Jonas
title: Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography
Chapter 1 - Introduction
subjects: ddc-870
subjects: ddc-880
divisions: i-70900
note: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/experience-and-teleology-ancient-historiography-futures-past-herodotus-augustine?format=HB
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.
date: 2013
publisher: Cambridge Universitiy Press
id_scheme: DOI
fp7_project_id: 312321
ppn_swb: 1655993895
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-203265
language: eng
bibsort: GRETHLEINJEXPERIENCE2013
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Cambridge
pagerange: i-26
isbn: 9781107040281
book_title: Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography
citation:   Grethlein, Jonas  (2013) Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography Chapter 1 - Introduction.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20326/1/ExperienceTeleology_ChapterI_Introduction.pdf