Historical consciousness and the use of the past in the ancient world
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Baines, John, 1946-
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Blom, Henriette van der, , [HerausgeberIn] Chen, Y. S. 1969- , [HerausgeberIn] Rood, Tim, 1969- , [HerausgeberIn] |
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Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT :
Equinox Publishing Ltd,
2019.
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1 online resource. |
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Historical consciousness and the use of the past in the ancient world / (Print version) |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Ancient near Eastern and Hittite traditions: introduction / Paul Collins
- The domestication of stranger kings: making history by list in ancient Mesopotamia / Piotr Michalowski
- "He who saw the deep": history as ritual in the material world of Mesopotamia / Paul Collins
- "I swear that these are no lies, it is indeed true!": on the role of the individual in early Mesopotamian historiography / Gebhard Selz
- The Hittites and their past: forms of historical consciousness in Hittite Anatolia / Amir Gilan
- Egyptian and Maya traditions: introduction / John Baines
- Meaningful pasts: on social logics and conceptions of the past in ancient Egypt / Marcelo Campagno
- History and historiography in the material world: ancient Egyptian perspectives / John Baines
- Telling time: historical thinking and the ancient Maya / Simon Martin
- Chinese traditions: introduction / Glen Dudbridge
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- Reflections and uses of the distant past in the Chinese bronze inscriptions from the 10th to 5th centuries BC / Maria Khayutina
- The scene of inquiry in early Chinese historiography / David Schaberg
- Moments of definition in Chinese historiography / Glen Dudbridge
- Biblical traditions: introduction / Laura Feldt
- Periodization in biblical historiography / Peter Machinist
- Using the past in the Hebrew Bible: the fantastic, memory techniques, and "history" in the exodus narrative / Laura Feldt
- Classical traditions: introduction / Henriette van der Blom and Tim Rood
- Waiting for Herodotus: the mindsets of 425 BC / Christopher Pelling
- Historical consciousness and the "aitiology" in Greece / Rosalind Thomas
- Myth and history entwined: female influence and male usurpation in Herodotus' histories / Emily Baragwanath
- "Stories embroidered beyond truth": reading Herodotus and Thucydides in light of Pindar's Olympian 1 / Jonas Grethlein
- Thucydides and myth / Tim Rood
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- Fabula and history in Livy's narrative of the capture of Veii / Christina Kraus
- Roman Republican history in imperial rhetorical exercises / Henriette van der Blom.
