Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras

John Marincola is Leon Golden Professor of Classics at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography, Greek Historians, and, with Michael A. Flower, Herodotus Histories: Book IX. He revised the Penguin edition of Herodotus’ Histories, and provided the translation for The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenica. His edited volumes include the Cambridge Companion to Herodotus and A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University and a specialist in the histories and cultures of ancient Iran and Greece. He also works on dress and gender in antiquity and on the ancient world in popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema. He is the author of Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World, Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece, King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE and Ctesias’ History of Persia. He is editor of Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras, Creating a Hellenistic World and The Hellenistic Court as well as numerous articles on Greek and Persian culture. He is the series editor of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia and co-series editor of Screening Antiquity. Calum Maciver is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh

• Preface; List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction: A Past without Historians, John Marincola; 2. Homer and Heroic History, Jonas Grethlein; 3. Hesiod on Human History, Bruno Currie; 4. Helen and ‘I’ in Early Greek Lyric, Deborah Boedeker; 5. Stesichorus and Ibycus: plain tales from the western front, Ewen Bowie; 6. Pindar and the Reconstruction of the Past, Maria Pavlou; 7. Debating the Past in Euripides’ Troades and Orestes and in Sophocles’ Electra, Ruth Scodel; 8. Tragic Pasts and Euripidean Explainers, Allen Romano; 9. Old Comedy and Popular History, Jeffrey Henderson; 10. Attic Heroes and the Construction of the Athenian Past in the Fifth Century, H. A. Shapiro; 11. Family time: temporality, gender and materiality in ancient Greece, Lin Foxhall; 12. Common knowledge and the contestation of history in some fourth-century Athenian trials, Jon Hesk; 13. Plato and the Stability of History, Kathryn Morgan; 14. Inscribing the Past in Fourth-Century Athens, S. D. Lambert; 15. The Politics of the Past: Remembering Revolution at Athens, Julia L. Shear; 16. ‘Remembering the ancient way of life’: primitivism in Greek sacrificial ritual, Emily Kearns; 17. The Great Kings of the Fourth Century and the Greek Memory of the Persian Past, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones; 18. Commentary, Simon Goldhill, Suzanne Saïd and Christopher Pelling; Index Locorum; Index.