EAN: 9783110578218

KNOWING FUTURE TIME IN AND THROUGH GREEK HISTOR...

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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