Includes bibliographical references and index

The territory of the historian in antiquity / François Hartog -- Just forces: Heidegger, Arendt and antiquity / Laurence Paul Hemming -- On not being modern: exploring historical ontology with Bruno Latour / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Truth, method and the historian's character: the epistemic virtues of Greek and Roman historians / Alexander Meeus -- The universal in the particular: a core dilemma of historicism in antiquity / Jonas Grethlein -- Teleology with a human face: 'sideshadowing' and its effects in Tacitus' treatment of Germanicus (Annals 1-2) / Aske Damtoft Poulsen -- Minding the gap: mimetic imperfection and the historiographical enterprise / Katherine Clarke -- The life of the biographer: Plutarch's presence in Sulla, Antony and Otho / Inger N.I. Kuin -- Demos, democracy and method: political trust and the science of suspicion / Ahuvia Kahane -- Walter Benjamin and Greek historiography / Salvatore Tufano -- When Augustus met Adorno: class, mimesis and restoring the past / Jerry Toner -- Teleology and the experience of history / David Carr -- The limits of progress and the modern problem of historical meaning / Aaron Turner -- Thucydides and the historiography of the future / Neville Morley

The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves to address this apparent deficit. Its scope is three-fold. Firstly, it aims at encountering ancient modes of historical and historiographical thought within the province of their own horizon. Secondly, this book considers the possibility of a dialogue between ancient and modern philosophies of history concerning the influence of ancient historical thought on the development of modern philosophy of history and the utility of modern philosophy of history in the interpretation of ancient historiography. Thirdly, this book explores the continuities and discontinuities in historical method and thought from antiquity to modernity. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the necessity of re-evaluating our assumptions about the relation of ancient and modern historical thought and lays the groundwork for a more fruitful dialogue in the future.