O conceito de temporalidade e sua aplicação na historiografia antiga

Abstract

This article presents, in the first place, a debate on the concepts, definitions and applications of temporality, as well as some of its innate contradictions. The main goal here is to update the discussion about how to understand temporality within the context of Ancient historiography, reviewing the associations of Greek and Roman historiography with the idea of cycle and of its counterpoint, Jewish-Christian historiography, with linearity. Lastly, we suggest that it is possible to read these two different forms of historiography also as an inversion of their associated ideas, thereby demonstrating that this paradox is nothing more than a reflection of the general paradoxes within the concept of temporality itself.