The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus

The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus

The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus

The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus

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Overview

The origins and development of Greek historiography cannot be properly understood unless early historical writings are situated in the framework of late archaic and early classical Greek culture and society. Contextualization opens up new perspectives on the subject in The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus. At the same time, such writings offer significant insights into how works of Herodotus reflect the attitude of fifth-century Greeks towards the transmission and manipulation of knowledge about the past. Essays by an international range of experts explore all aspects of the topic and, at the same time, make a thought-provoking contribution to the ongoing debates concerning literacy and oral culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191528897
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 11/22/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 909 KB

About the Author

Nino Luraghi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Nino Luraghi2. Herodotus and Oral History, Oswyn Murray3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry?, Ewen L. Bowie4. Hecataus: from Genealogy to Historiography, Lucio Bertelli5. Early Historie and Literacy, Robert L. Fowler6. Constructing the Past: Colonial Traditions and the Writing of History. The Case of Cyrene, Maurizio Giangiulio7. Local Knowledge in Herodotus' Histories, Nino Luraghi8. Kissing Cousins: Some Curious Cases of Adjacent Material in Herodotus, Alan Griffiths9. The Herodotean Picture of Themistocles: A Mirror of Fifth-century Athens, Wolfgang Blosel10. Herodotus' Histories and the Floating Gap, Rosalind Thomas11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal History, Pietro Vannichelli12. The Beginnings of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai, Astrid Moller13. Thucydides' Archaeology: Between Epic and Oral Traditions, Roberto Nicolai14. Myth, History, and Collective Identity; Uses of the Past in Ancient Greece and Beyond, Hans-Joachim Gehrke15. Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered, Oswyn Murray
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