| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Abbreviations -- I. 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. Hecataeus: From Genealogy to Historiography -- LUCIO BERTELLI -- 5. Early Historie and 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' Histories and the Floating Gap -- ROSALIND THOMAS -- 11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal -- History -- PIETRO VANNICELLI -- 12. The Beginnings of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai -- ASTRID MOLLER -- I3. 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 -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Locorum -- General Index. |
| General note | "Most of the essays ... derive from papers presented at the workshop 'The Dawn of Historiography,' held in Turin at the beginning of September 1997"-p. [v] |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002277390 |
| ISBN | 0199240507 |
