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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Originally published: 2001. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 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. At the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Herodotus.
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Herodotus. |
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Herodotus. |
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Herodotus. |
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Historiography -- Greece.
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Historiography. |
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Greece. |
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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Civilization. |
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To 146 B.C |
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To 146 B.C. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Luraghi, Nino.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Historian's craft in the age of Herodotus. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007 0199215111 9780199215119 (OCoLC)71346786 |
| ISBN |
9780191528897 (electronic book) |
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0191528897 (electronic book) |
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