Historical consciousness and the use of the past in the ancient world / edited by John Baines, Henriette van der Blom, Yi Samuel Chen, Tim Rood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baines, John, 1946- editor.

Blom, Henriette van der, editor.

Chen, Y. S. (Yi Samuel), 1969- editor.

Rood, Tim, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Historiography.

History, Ancient.

History, Ancient--Methodology.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

xiv, 386 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019.

Summary:

"This volume addresses crucial questions in current scholarship on historical consciousness and historiography. These questions include the formation of different traditions and the manifold uses of the past in particular socio-political contexts or circumstances; the ways in which these traditions and these types of cultural memory informed or contributed to the rise of more formal modes of historiography; interactions between formal modes of historiography and other traditions of historical consciousness during their transmission; and the implications of such interactions for cultural heritage, collective memory, and later understandings of history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ancient near Eastern and Hittite traditions: introduction / Paul Collins

The domestication of stranger kings: making history by list in ancient Mesopotamia / Piotr Michalowski

"He who saw the deep": history as ritual in the material world of Mesopotamia / Paul Collins

"I swear that these are no lies, it is indeed true!": on the role of the individual in early Mesopotamian historiography / Gebhard Selz

The Hittites and their past: forms of historical consciousness in Hittite Anatolia / Amir Gilan

Egyptian and Maya traditions: introduction / John Baines

Meaningful pasts: on social logics and conceptions of the past in ancient Egypt / Marcelo Campagno

History and historiography in the material world: ancient Egyptian perspectives / John Baines

Telling time: historical thinking and the ancient Maya / Simon Martin

Chinese traditions: introduction / Glen Dudbridge

Reflections and uses of the distant past in the Chinese bronze inscriptions from the 10th to 5th centuries BC / Maria Khayutina

The scene of inquiry in early Chinese historiography / David Schaberg

Moments of definition in Chinese historiography / Glen Dudbridge

Biblical traditions: introduction / Laura Feldt

Periodization in biblical historiography / Peter Machinist

Using the past in the Hebrew Bible: the fantastic, memory techniques, and "history" in the exodus narrative / Laura Feldt

Classical traditions: introduction / Henriette van der Blom and Tim Rood

Waiting for Herodotus: the mindsets of 425 BC / Christopher Pelling

Historical consciousness and the "aitiology" in Greece / Rosalind Thomas

Myth and history entwined: female influence and male usurpation in Herodotus' histories / Emily Baragwanath

"Stories embroidered beyond truth": reading Herodotus and Thucydides in light of Pindar's Olympian 1 / Jonas Grethlein

Thucydides and myth / Tim Rood

Fabula and history in Livy's narrative of the capture of Veii / Christina Kraus

Roman Republican history in imperial rhetorical exercises / Henriette van der Blom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Historical consciousness and the use of the past in the ancient world.

ISBN:

9781781796566

1781796564

OCLC:

1045723331