TY - BOOK ID - 4819062 TI - Experience and teleology in ancient historiography PY - 2013 SN - 9781107040281 1107040280 9781139628815 1108820263 1107425212 110741993X 1107423007 1107421179 113962881X 1107417317 1107440505 9781107417311 9781107425217 9781107423008 9781107421172 PB - Cambridge New York DB - UniCat KW - History, Ancient KW - Rhetoric, Ancient KW - History KW - Histoire ancienne KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Histoire KW - Historiography. KW - Historiography KW - Methodology. KW - Historiographie KW - Méthodologie KW - Antike. KW - Geschichtsschreibung. KW - Methode. KW - Griechenland. KW - Römisches Reich. KW - Rhétorique ancienne KW - Méthodologie KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Ancient rhetoric KW - Classical languages KW - Greek language KW - Greek rhetoric KW - Latin language KW - Latin rhetoric KW - Rhetoric UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4819062 AB - 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. ER -