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Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : 'futures past' from Herodotus to Augustine
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- Creator
- Jonas Grethlein, Heidelberg University
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xi, 422 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1107423007, 110741993X, 9781107421172, 9781139628815, 1107425212, 9781107423008, 1107417317, 113962881X, 9781107040281, 1107040280, 9781107417311, 9781107425217, 1107421179, 9781107419933
- OCLC
- ocn833146672, ocn862077690
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 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