The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological HistoryThe Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non modern peoples, western and non western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical devices impose modern, dualist metaphysical conditions upon all non modern realities, thereby authorizing us to align those realities with our own modern ontological commitments,