CONTENTS

Preface

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

  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

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 A. 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