Pushing the Boundaries of Historia [Hardcover]

List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction, Mary C. English and Lee M. Fratantuono; Part I: Herodotean narratives and cross-cultural comparisons; Chapter 1: Different ways of saying historia in the prose of Herodotus and Thucydides, Gregory Nagy; Chapter 2: Tyrants spectacles in Herodotus, Deborah Boedeker; Chapter 3: Thinking with Sima Qian's Shiji about Herodotus fragmented narrative of the story of Miltiades, Thomas R. Martin; Chapter 4: Settling family feuds: Lysias 1 and Herodotus Lydians, Nina C. Coppolino; Chapter 5: East and West in the Histories of Herodotus and Tacitus, Timothy Joseph; Part II. Historia and the ancient world; Chapter 6: Thucydides use of Homer in his Archaeology, Mary Ebbott; Chapter 7: Models of gift-exchange and practices of hostage-giving and hostage-taking in classical Persian poetry, Olga M. Davidson; Chapter 8: Michael Ventris, Sterling Dow, and the initial reception of the decipherment of Linear B, Stephen Tracy; Chapter 9: Citizen scholarship in the Homer Multitext project, Neel Smith; Part III: The development and reception of historical exempla; Chapter 10: Othryadas: The development of a historical and literary exemplum, Alissa Vaillancourt and Andrew G. Scott; Chapter 11: No peeking! Athena and Alcibiades, Joseph Falaky Nagy; Chapter 12: A furious fury: Virgils Camilla, Livys Camillus, and the reconciliations of Juno, Lee M. Fratantuono; Chapter 13: Ovids autobiography (Tr. 4.10): Poetic identity and immortality in the poetry of exile, Matthew M. McGowan; Chapter 14: Billy Collins as a modern-day Ovid: An Ovidian reading of Collins Ballistics, Jill A. Coyle; Part IV: Fury, honor, and historia: Conflict and struggle in the Greek anl��