The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus /
By considering the works of Herodotus against a background of late archaic and early classical Greek culture and society, these new essays by an international team of experts make a thought-provoking contribution to the ongoing debates concerning literacy and oral culture. - ;The origins and develop...
| Други автори: | Luraghi, Nino. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Historian's craft in the age of Herodotus. |
Съдържание:
- Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Herodotus and Oral History; 3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry?; 4. Hecataeus: 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 History12. 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 on Contributors; Index Locorum; General Index.