The Historian's Craft in the Age of HerodotusNino Luraghi 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Herodotus and Oral History | 16 |
3 Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry? | 45 |
From Genealogy to Historiography | 67 |
5 Early Histori275 and Literacy | 95 |
Colonial Traditions and the Writing of History The Case of Cyrene | 116 |
7 Local Knowledge in Herodotus Histories | 138 |
Some Curious Cases of Adjacent Material in Herodotus | 161 |
11 Herodotus Egypt and the Foundations of Universal History | 211 |
Hellanicus Hiereiai | 241 |
Between Epic and Oral Traditions | 263 |
Uses of the Past in Ancient Greece and Beyond | 286 |
15 Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered | 314 |
Notes on Contributors | 326 |
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