Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography

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. Introduction. The Futures Of Greek Historiography / Alexandra Lianeri -- Ancient Historiography And Future Past / Jonas Grethlein -- Futures Real And Unreal In Greek Historiography / Emily Greenwood -- Between Thucydides And The Future : Narrative Prolepsis And Xenophon's Concept Of Historiography / Antonis Tsakmakis -- Knowing Future Time In Xenophon's Anabasis / Emily Baragwanath -- Knowledge And Foresight In Polybius / Nikos Miltsios -- Preparing For Posterity : Dionysius And Polybius / Christopher Pelling -- The Future And The Logic Of Closure In Greek Historiography / Catherine Darbo-peschanski -- No Future? : Possibilities And Permanence In Herodotus' Histories / Katharina Wesselmann -- Fading Into The Future : Visibility And Legibility In Thucydides' History / Karen Bassi -- Shifting Endings, Ambiguity And Deferred Closure In Polybius' Histories / Nicolas Wiater -- Plutarch On The Future Of An Ancient World / Paolo Desideri -- Future's Bright? : Looking Forward In Appian / Luke Pitcher -- Writing For Posterity In Ancient Historiography : Lucian's Perspective / Melina Tamiolaki -- On The Shoulders Of Greeks? : Future Time In Livy's Ab Urbe Condita / Dennis Pausch -- Constituting The Modern World As The Future Of Greek Antiquity / Antonis Liakos -- Horoscopes Of Empires : Future Ruins From Thucydides To Macaulay / Tim Rood -- Historiographic Ancients And Moderns : The Difference Between Thucydides And Ranke / Aviezer Tucker -- The Western Futures Of Ancient History / Oswyn Murray. Edited By Alexandra Lianeri. Based On A Conference Organised At The Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki In 2013 Which Was Itself Part Of The Conference Series 'trends In Classics', Which Goes Back To 2007.--preface. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 401-430) And Index.