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1 online resource (436 pages) |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
History, Ancient -- Historiography.
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Rhetoric, Ancient -- Historiography.
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History -- Methodology.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Print version: Grethlein, Jonas. Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : futures past from Herodotus to Augustine. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xi, 422 pages 9781107040281 (DLC) 2013009541 |
| ISBN |
9781107040281 (hardback) |
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9781107421172 (electronic bk.) |
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