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Trends in Classics-Supplementary Volumes Ser.: Knowing Future Time in and Through Greek Historiography by Alexandra Lianeri (2017, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter

ISBN-103110578212

ISBN-139783110578218

eBay Product ID (ePID)239964743

Product Key Features

Number of Pages452 Pages

Publication NameKnowing Future Time in and Through Greek Historiography

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

SubjectHistoriography, Ancient / General, Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Ancient / Greece

TypeTextbook

AuthorAlexandra Lianeri

Subject AreaHistory

SeriesTrends in Classics-Supplementary Volumes Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight26.2 Oz

Item Length6.1 in

Item Width9.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Series Volume Number32

Dewey Decimal938.0072

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisFrom the early modern period, Greek historiography has been studied in the context of Cicero's notion historia magistra vitae and considered to exclude conceptions of the future as different from the present and past. Comparisons with the Roman, Judeo-Christian and modern historiography have sought to justify this perspective by drawing on a category of the future as a temporal mode that breaks with the present. In this volume, distinguished classicists and historians challenge this contention by raising the question of what the future was and meant in antiquity by offering fresh considerations of prognostic and anticipatory voices in Greek historiography from Herodotus to Appian and by tracing the roots of established views on historical time in the opposition between antiquity and modernity. They look both at contemporary scholarly argument and the writings of Greek historians in order to explore the relation of time, especially the future, to an idea of the historical that is formulated in the plural and is always in motion. By reflecting on the prognostic of historical time the volume will be of interest not only to classical scholars, but to all who are interested in the history and theory of historical time.