The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus


edited by Nino Luraghi.
Bok Engelsk 2001 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Oxford ; New York : : Oxford University Press, , 2001.
Omfang
1 online resource (x, 340 p.)
Opplysninger
"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].. - 1. Introduction; 2. Herodotus and Oral History; 3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry?; 4. Hecataus: from Genealogy to Historiography; 5. Early Historie and Literacy; 6. Constructing the Past: Colonial Traditions and the Writing of History. The Case of Cyrene; 7. Local Knowledge in Herodotus' Histories; 8. Kissing Cousins: Some Curious Cases of Adjacent Material in Herodotus; 9. The Herodotean Picture of Themistocles: A Mirror of Fifth-century Athens; 10. Herodotus' Histories and the Floating Gap; 11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal History; 12. The Beginnings of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai; 13. Thucydides' Archaeology: Between Epic and Oral Traditions; 14. Myth, History, and Collective Identity; Uses of the Past in Ancient Greece and Beyond; 15. Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered. - The development of Greek historiography is best understood with the writings situated in the framework of late archaic & early classical Greek society. These essays make a contribution to the debate concerning literacy and oral culture.. - Electronic reproduction.
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0199240507

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