The western time of ancient history : historiographical encounters with the Greek and Roman pasts

Weitere Verfasser: Lianeri, Alexandra.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Imperium Romanum
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 15 Datensätze
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction. Unfounding times: the idea and ideal of ancient history in Western historical thought /
  • Alexandra Lianeri
  • Theorising Western Time: Concepts and Models:
  • 1.
  • Time's authority /
  • Francois Hartog;
  • 2.
  • Exemplarity and anti-exemplarity in Early Modern Europe /
  • Peter Burke;
  • 3. Greek philosophy and Western history: a philosophy-centred temporality /
  • Giuseppe Cambiano;
  • 4.
  • Historiography and political theology: Momigliano and the end of history /
  • Howard Caygill
  • Ancient History and Modern Temporalities:
  • 5.
  • The making of a bourgeois antiquity. Wilhelm von Humboldt and Greek history /
  • Stefan Rebenich;
  • 6. Modern histories of Ancient Greece: genealogies, contexts and eighteenth-century narrative historiography /
  • Giovanna Ceserani;
  • 7.
  • Acquiring (a) historicity: Greek history, temporalities and eurocentrism in the Sattelzeit (1750-1850) /
  • Kostas Vlassopoulos;
  • 8.
  • Herodotus and Thucydides in the view of nineteenth-century German historians /
  • Ulrich Muhlack;
  • 9.
  • Monumentality and the meaning of the past in ancient and modern historiography /
  • Neville Morley
  • Unfounding Time In and Through Ancient Historical Thought:
  • 10.
  • Thucydides and social change: between akribeia and universality /
  • Rosalind Thomas;
  • 11.
  • Historia magistra vitae in Herodotus and Thucydides?: the exemplary use of the past, and ancient and modern temporalities /
  • Jonas Grethlein;
  • 12.
  • Repetition and exemplarity in historical thought: ancient Rome and the ghosts of modernity /
  • Ellen O'Gorman;
  • 13.
  • Time and authority in the chronicle of Sulpicius Severus /
  • Michael Stuart Williams
  • Afterword:
  • 14. Ancient history in the eighteenth century /
  • Oswyn Murray;
  • 15. Seeing in and through time /
  • John Dunn.