The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus / / edited by Nino Luraghi
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| Titolo: |
The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus / / edited by Nino Luraghi
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 340 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 938/.007/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Historiography - Greece - History - To 1500 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Greece History To 146 B.C Historiography |
| Altri autori: |
LuraghiNino
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| Note generali: | "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]. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The development of Greek historiography is best understood with the writings situated in the framework of late archaic & early classical Greek society. These essays make a thought-provoking contribution to the debate concerning literacy & oral culture. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus |
| ISBN: | 1-383-03730-2 |
| 0-19-152889-7 | |
| 1-281-19054-3 | |
| 1-4294-7031-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813269703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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