ENGLISH

Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity

By Gerald A. Press

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9780773563971
DOI
10.1515/9780773563971
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8867185 bytes)
Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas; 2
Pages
176\192
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 19:24:15

Description

An extensive scholarly literature, written in the past century holds that in ancient Greek and Roman thought history is understood as circular and repetitive - a consequence of their anti-temporal metaphysics - in contrast with Judaeo-Christian thought, w

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