The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus

by Nino Luraghi (Editor)

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. 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:	9780199215119
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/03/2007
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Nino Luraghi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, 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