The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus [Hardcover]

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 inThe Historian's Craft inthe 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.

1. Introduction,Nino Luraghi
2. Herodotus and Oral History,Oswyn Murray
3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry?,Ewen L. Bowie
4. Hecataus: from Genealogy to Historiography,Lucio Bertelli
5. EarlyHistorieand Literacy,Robert L. Fowler
6. Constructing the Past: Colonial Traditions and the Writing of History. The Case of Cyrene,Maurizio Giangiulio
7. Local Knowledge in Herodotus'Histories,Nino Luraghi
8. Kissing Cousins: Some Curious Cases of Adjacent Material in Herodotus,Alan Griffiths
9. The Herodotean Picture of Themistocles: A Mirror of Fifth-century Athens,Wolfgang Blosel
10. Herodotus'Historiesand the Floating Gap,Rosalind Thomas
11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal History,Pietro Vannichelli
12. The Beginnings of Chronography: Hellanicus'Hiereiai,Astrid Moller
13. Thucydides' Archaeology: Between Epic and Oral Traditions,Roberto Nicolai
14. Myth, History, and Collective Identity; Uses of the Past in Ancient Greece and Beyond,Hans-Joachim Gehrke
15. Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered,Oswyn Murray

Nino Luraghi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, Harvard University