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.
ISBN: 9780521883139
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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.