Contents

  1. List of Figures
  2. Preface
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. Prelude: Look to the End
  5. 1     Inventing Anachronism
  6. Modern anachronisms
  7. The origins of anachronism
  8. From Byzantium to Italy and beyond
  9. Anachronism from literature to chronology
  10. Anachronism and related terms
  11. Anachronism and the idea of progress
  12. The historian’s unforgivable sin
  13. 2     Anachronistic Histories
  14. Borges and Cervantes: A chivalrous pursuit
  15. Petrarch and Valla: Forging anachronism
  16. Altdorfer and Schlegel: Koselleck’s pasts
  17. Anachronism and periodization
  18. 3     Anachronism and Philology
  19. Creative anachronism in antiquity
  20. Situating ancient criticism
  21. Anachronism and philological argument
  22. Anachronistic similes
  23. Anachronistic names
  24. Anachronism and the poet
  25. Anachronistic games: Orestes at the Pythia
  26. Historicizing literary anachronism
  27. Interlude: Dido versus Virgil
  28. 4     Anachronism and Chronology
  29. Scaliger and the birth of chronology
  30. Calendars out of joint
  31. Dating systems
  32. Prochronisms and metachronisms
  33. 5     Anachronistic Survivals
  34. Uneven development
  35. Anachronistic traces
  36. Anachronism in the city
  37. Anachronism on the periphery
  38. Anachronism incorporated
  39. 6     Anachronism and Exemplarity
  40. Exemplarity versus historicism
  41. Exemplarity in theory
  42. Exemplarity in action
  43. Exempla in their time
  44. Interlude: Ariadne on Naxos
  45. 7     Anachronism Now: Multitemporal Moments
  46. Theorizing multitemporality
  47. Seizing the moment
  48. Objects in time
  49. Epic mo(nu)ments
  50. Anachronic Ajax
  51. Coda: Ariadne at Cumae
  52. Interlude: Aeneas in the Underworld
  53. 8     Anachronistic Dialogues
  54. Anachronism and the School of Athens
  55. Philosophical dialogues across time
  56. Dialogues with the dead
  57. Reading communities
  58. Epilogue: Crowning the Victors
  59. Notes
  60. References
  61. Index
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