The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus

Nino Luraghi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Harvard University.

• 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

Review from previous edition Everyone who works on early Greek poetics, history and culture will find much of interest in this rich volume ... provocative and exciting book ... The contributors and in particular Professors Luraghi and Murray have given us an enormous amount to think about.