The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus
By: edited by Nino Luraghi.
Contributors: Luraghi, Nino.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Herodotus -- Technique; Herodotus; Historiography -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Most of the essays ... derive from papers presented at the workshop 'The Dawn of Historiography,' held in Turin at the beginning of September 1997"-p. [v]
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Abbreviations; title: I. Introduction; title: NINO LURAGHI; title: 2. Herodotus and Oral History; title: OSWYN MURRAY; title: 3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and; title: Iambic Poetry?; title: EWEN L. BOWIE; title: 4. Hecataeus: From Genealogy to Historiography; title: LUCIO BERTELLI; title: 5. Early Historie and Literacy; title: ROBERT L. FOWLER; title: 6. Constructing the Past: Colonial Traditions and the; title: Writing of History. The Case of Cyrene; title: MAURIZIO GIANGIULIO; title: 7. Local Knowledge in Herodotus' Histories; title: NINO LURAGHI; title: 8. Kissing Cousins: Some Curious Cases of Adjacent; title: Material in Herodotus; title: ALAN GRIFFITHS; title: 9. The Herodotean Picture of Themistocles: A Mirror of; title: Fifth-century Athens; title: WOLFGANG BLOSEL; title: 10. Herodotus' Histories and the Floating Gap; title: ROSALIND THOMAS; title: 11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal; title: History; title: PIETRO VANNICELLI; title: 12. The Beginnings of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai; title: ASTRID MOLLER; title: I3. Thucydides' Archaeology: Between Epic and Oral; title: Traditions; title: ROBERTO NICOLAI; title: 14. Myth, History, and Collective Identity: Uses of the Past; title: in Ancient Greece and Beyond; title: HANS-JOACHIM GEHRKE; title: 15. Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered; title: OSWYN MURRAY; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Index Locorum; title: General Index.