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Titolo |
The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus / / editor, Nino Luraghi |
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Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-03730-2 |
0-19-152889-7 |
1-281-19054-3 |
1-4294-7031-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 340 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Historiography - Greece - History - To 1500 |
Greece History To 146 B.C Historiography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"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]. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction; 2. Herodotus and Oral History; 3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry?; 4. Hecataus: 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; 11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal History; 12. 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 same time, such |
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