The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nino Luraghi

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 340 p.)
• Disciplina: 938/.007/2
• Soggetto topico: Historiography - Greece - History - To 1500
• Soggetto geografico: Greece History To 146 B.C Historiography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LuraghiNino
• 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 contribution to the debate concerning literacy and oral culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: The historian's craft in the age of Herodotus
• ISBN: 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.: 9910451625403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II