Title: The Lindian chronicle and the Greek creation of their past /
Authors: Higbie, Carolyn.
Date: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: C
Abstract: Using an inscription from the 1st century BC as the starting point, this text studies the ancient Greeks' perception of their past. Drawing on anthropological theory and archaeological and literary evidence, it explores how ancient Greeks reconstructed their past and utilised it in their present.
Subject headings (LCSH): Athena (Greek deity); Athena (Greek deity)--History.; Greece--History.; Historiography--Greece.; Inscriptions--Greece--Lindhos.; Inscriptions--Greece--Lindos.; Lindhos (Greece)--Antiquities.; Mythology, Greek.