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