Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : futures past from Herodotus to Augustine
Title:
Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : futures past from Herodotus to Augustine
Author:
Grethlein, Jonas, 1978-
ISBN:
9781107421172
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (436 pages)
Contents:
Futures past: historiography between experience and teleology -- Experience: making the past present -- Thucydides, The history of the Peloponnesian War -- Xenophon, Anabasis -- Plutarch, Alexander -- Tacitus, Annals -- Teleology: the power of retrospect -- Herodotus, Histories -- Polybius, Histories -- Sallust, Bellum catilinae -- Beyond experience and teleology -- Augustine, Confessions -- Epilogue: experience in modern historiography.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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