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.
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