Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World

John Baines is Professor of Egyptology Emeritus at the University of Oxford. Henriette van der Blom is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. Yi Samuel Chen is Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Tim Rood is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is the Dorothea Gray Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh's College.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in a Material World John Baines,Henriette van der Blom,Yi Samuel Chen,Tim RoodI: Mesopotamian and Hittite Traditions1. Ancient Near Eastern and Hittite Traditions: IntroductionPaul Collins, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford2. The Domestication of Stranger Kings: Making History by List in Ancient MesopotamiaPiotr Michalowski, University of Michigan3. ‘He who saw the Deep’: History as Ritual in the Material World of MesopotamiaPaul Collins4. 1‘I swear that these are no lies, it is indeed true!’ On the Role of the Individual in Early Mesopotamian HistoriographyGebhard Selz, University of Vienna5. The Hittites and their Past: Forms of Historical Consciousness in Hittite AnatoliaAmir Gilan, Tel Aviv UniversityII: Egyptian and Maya Traditions6. Egyptian and Maya Traditions: IntroductionJohn Baines7. Meaningful Pasts: On Social Logics and Conceptions of the Past in Ancient Egypt Marcelo Campagno, University of Buenos Aires8. 2History and Historiography in the Material World: Ancient Egyptian PerspectivesJohn Baines9. Telling Time: Historical Thinking and the Ancient MayaSimon Martin, University of Pennsylvania MuseumIII: Chinese Traditions10. Chinese Traditions: IntroductionGlen Dudbridge †, University of Oxford311. Reflections and Uses of the Distant Past in the Chinese Bronze Inscriptions from the 10th to 5th Centuries BCMaria Khayutina, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich12. The Scene of Inquiry in Early Chinese HistoriographyDavid Schaberg, University of California, Los Angeles13. Three Moments of Definition in Chinese HistoriographyGlen Dudbridge †IV: Biblical Traditions14. Biblical Traditions: IntroductionLaura Feldt, University of Southern Denmark15. Periodization in Biblical HistoriographyPeter Machinist, Harvard University16. Using the Past in the Hebrew Bible: The Fantastic, Memory Techniques and ‘History’ in the Exodus NarrativeLaura FeldtV: Classical Traditions17. Classical Traditions: IntroductionHenriette van der Blom and Tim Rood18. Waiting for Herodotus: The Mindsets of 425 BCChristopher Pelling, University of Oxford19. Historical Consciousness and the ‘Aitiology’ in GreeceRosalind Thomas, University of Oxford20. Myth and History Entwined: Female Influence and Male Usurpation in Herodotus’ HistoriesEmily Baragwanath, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill21.‘Stories embroidered beyond truth’: Reading Herodotus and Thucydides in Light of Pindar’s Olympian 1Jonas Grethlein, University of Heidelberg22. Thucydides and MythTim Rood23. Fabula and History in Livy’s Narrative of the Capture of VeiiChristina Kraus, Yale University24. Roman Republican History in Imperial Rhetorical ExercisesHenriette van der Blom