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Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography (Paperback)
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Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography (Paperback)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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From 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.
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