Print version: Grethlein, Jonas. Experience and teleology in ancient historiography : futures past from Herodotus to Augustine. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xi, 422 pages ISBN 9781107040281
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Futures past: historiography between experience and teleology -- Experience: making the past present -- Thucydides, The history of the Peloponnesian War -- Xenophon, Anabasis -- Plutarch, Alexander -- Tacitus, Annals -- Teleology: the power of retrospect -- Herodotus, Histories -- Polybius, Histories -- Sallust, Bellum catilinae -- Beyond experience and teleology -- Augustine, Confessions -- Epilogue: experience in modern historiography.