This book explores the tension in ancient historiography between teleological design and narrating the past as it was experienced by historical characters.

Drawing on cognitive approaches to literary studies, this volume pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative that transcends the taxonomies of structurali

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Con

From the early modern period, Greek historiography has been studied in the context of Cicero's notion historia magistra vitae and considered to exclude concepti