ABSTRACT
The philosophy of history in the ancient world cannot be separated from the general foundations of the Ancient Greek world view. The ahistorical nature of the principal features of Ancient Greek mythology is obvious. The task of the best known philosophers of antiquity was to remove the contradiction between the relatively purposeful development of man in the period of his emergence as a social being and the cyclical character of social development that followed from general methodological principles. The main idea of Aristotle's doctrine is to substantiate his total refusal to examine that progressive period in the history of civilization, the existence of which was assumed by his predecessors. A major reason for the inadequacy of the historical theories of antiquity was their dependence on the specifics of religious doctrine in their epoch. The Christian concept of creation contains two important elements: the thesis of the social existence of man as a condition of enforced activity.
