The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus / edited by Nino Luraghi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luraghi, Nino, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herodotus. Histories.

Herodotus.

Historiography--Greece.

Historiography.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 thought-provoking contribution to the debate concerning literacy & oral culture.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03730-2

0-19-152889-7

1-281-19054-3

1-4294-7031-3

OCLC:

437115818