The Legacy of Greece and Rome
Freyja Cox Jensen
Modern history in the West is several ways distinct from earlier traditions. Nevertheless, there are certain elements of history, historiography, and historical thought that can be traced through Renaissance, back to classical antiquity. This chapter explores legacies antiquity extent which these ideas were transmitted intervening years, assessing what was ancient about early modern “reborn,” truly new. Views time temporality varied considerably between world modern. Historical thought, writing captured it, always existed many diverse genres. Greece Rome both developed literatures expressed identities their civilizations, because vast territories Roman Empire, Latin literature imperial period purported whole world.