Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography

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Alexandra Lianeri, "Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography"
English | ISBN: 3110439530 | 2016 | 453 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Greek historiography engaged with past and present time; but how exactly did this engagement incorporate claims to knowing the future? Considering prognosis as rooted in historiographical temporalities this volume reads historians from Herodotus to Appian with a view to exploring configurations of future time in the context of ancient and modern reflections on the historical as well as the ethical and political role of historiographical practice.