In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature

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In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature is written by Franco Montanari and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3111502198 (ISBN 10) and 9783111502199 (ISBN 13).

The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to the human perception of the world. The volume at hand, entitled In the Mists of Time: Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature, explores pastness as expressed through myth and early history and as reflected in sophisticated concepts and epistemological questions in Ancient Greek and Latin literature. The eighteen contributions illustrate how the ancients addressed the past through poetry, history and philosophy and lend insight into the metaliterary, self-reflexive way of dealing with past texts through scholarship.