eprintid: 20527
rev_number: 12
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datestamp: 2016-04-06 06:56:42
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type: book
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creators_name: Grethlein, Jonas
title: Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography
Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine
subjects: ddc-800
subjects: ddc-880
divisions: i-70900
abstract: Description
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    About the Authors

    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: 2013-10-01
publisher: Cambridge University Press
fp7_project_id: 312321
ppn_swb: 1656564734
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-205277
language: eng
bibsort: GRETHLEINJEXPERIENCE20131001
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Cambridge
isbn: 9781107040281
citation:   Grethlein, Jonas  (2013) Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine.    Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.  ISBN 9781107040281     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/20527/1/Manuskript%20gesamt.pdf