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I. Introduction
NINO LURAGHI
2. Herodotus and Oral History
OSWYN MURRAY
3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and
Iambic Poetry?
EWEN L. BOWIE
4. Hecataeus: From Genealogy to Historiography
LUCIO BERTELLI
5. Early Historie and Literacy
ROBERT L. FOWLER
6. Constructing the Past: Colonial Traditions and the
Writing of History. The Case of Cyrene
MAURIZIO GIANGIULIO
7. Local Knowledge in Herodotus' Histories
NINO LURAGHI
8. Kissing Cousins: Some Curious Cases of Adjacent
Material in Herodotus
ALAN GRIFFITHS
9. The Herodotean Picture of Themistocles: A Mirror of
Fifth-century Athens
WOLFGANG BLOSEL
10. Herodotus' Histories and the Floating Gap
ROSALIND THOMAS
11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal
History
PIETRO VANNICELLI
12. The Beginnings of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai
ASTRID MOLLER
I3. Thucydides' Archaeology: Between Epic and Oral
Traditions
ROBERTO NICOLAI
14. Myth, History, and Collective Identity: Uses of the Past
in Ancient Greece and Beyond
HANS-JOACHIM GEHRKE
15. Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered
OSWYN MURRAY
Notes on Contributors
Index Locorum
General Index.