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Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Sinology, Biblical Studies, Classics, and Maya Studies. This volume addresses crucial questions in current scholarship on historical consciousness and historiography. These questions include the formation of different traditions and the manifold uses of the past in particular socio-political contexts or circumstances; the ways in which these traditions and these types of cultural memory informed or contributed to the rise of more formal modes of historiography; interactions between formal modes of historiography and other traditions of historical consciousness during their transmission; and the implications of such interactions for cultural heritage, collective memory, and later understandings of history. The chapters discuss many questions relating to the volume's theme: theoretical and methodological approaches to ancient material; intellectual, didactic, and social circumstances and institutions; ideological motivations behind, and social functions of, interactions; conceptual, narratological, and literary processes and mechanisms such as synchronism, sequencing of events, periodization, mythological prologues, aetiological motifs, genealogical and chronological schemes, geographical and ethnographical features, temporal and stylistic devices; interchanges between different temporal frameworks such as mythical, legendary, ritual, chronological; the extent and variety of interactions such as manifestations in visual arts, monuments, cultic activities, music and dramatic performance; physical or textual channels for dissemination and transmission; stages and periods of interaction in different cultures, authors, and texts; convention and innovation; differences and relationships between scholarly and popular conceptions of history; and exchanges between local traditions and ones with a global perspective. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume situates the rise of formal modes of historiography within a larger context of the development of historical consciousness and a wider web of intercommunicating discourses. It also uncovers intellectual processes, literary mechanisms, and social institutions involved in the construction of history. During its construction, while many local traditions persisted, some ancients gradually went beyond the temporal and spatial limitations of their local traditions, arriving at a more extended and unified timespan, a wider geographical region, and a common origin.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in a Material World John Baines,Henriette van der Blom,Yi Samuel Chen,Tim Rood
I: Mesopotamian and Hittite Traditions
1. Ancient Near Eastern and Hittite Traditions: Introduction
Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
2. The Domestication of Stranger Kings: Making History by List in Ancient Mesopotamia
Piotr Michalowski, University of Michigan
3. `He who saw the Deep': History as Ritual in the Material World of Mesopotamia
Paul Collins
4. `I swear that these are no lies, it is indeed true!' On the Role of the Individual in Early Mesopotamian Historiography
Gebhard Selz, University of Vienna
5. The Hittites and their Past: Forms of Historical Consciousness in Hittite Anatolia
Amir Gilan, Tel Aviv University
II: Egyptian and Maya Traditions
6. Egyptian and Maya Traditions: Introduction
John Baines
7. Meaningful Pasts: On Social Logics and Conceptions of the Past in Ancient Egypt
Marcelo Campagno, University of Buenos Aires
8. History and Historiography in the Material World: Ancient Egyptian Perspectives
John Baines
9. Telling Time: Historical Thinking and the Ancient Maya
Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania Museum
III: Chinese Traditions
10. Chinese Traditions: Introduction
Glen Dudbridge , University of Oxford
11. Reflections and Uses of the Distant Past in the Chinese Bronze Inscriptions from the 10th to 5th Centuries BC
Maria Khayutina, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
12. The Scene of Inquiry in Early Chinese Historiography
David Schaberg, University of California, Los Angeles
13. Three Moments of Definition in Chinese Historiography
Glen Dudbridge
IV: Biblical Traditions
14. Biblical Traditions: Introduction
Laura Feldt, University of Southern Denmark
15. Periodization in Biblical Historiography
Peter Machinist, Harvard University
16. Using the Past in the Hebrew Bible: The Fantastic, Memory Techniques and `history' in the Exodus Narrative
Laura Feldt
V: Classical Traditions
17. Classical Traditions: Introduction
Henriette van der Blom and Tim Rood
18. Waiting for Herodotus: The Mindsets of 425 BC
Christopher Pelling, University of Oxford
19. Historical Consciousness and the `aitiology' in Greece
Rosalind Thomas, University of Oxford
20. Myth and History Entwined: Female Influence and Male Usurpation in Herodotus' Histories
Emily Baragwanath, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
21.`Stories embroidered beyond truth': Reading Herodotus and Thucydides in Light of Pindar's Olympian 1
Jonas Grethlein, University of Heidelberg
22. Thucydides and Myth
Tim Rood
23. Fabula and History in Livy's Narrative of the Capture of Veii
Christina Kraus, Yale University
24. Roman Republican History in Imperial Rhetorical Exercises
Henriette van der Blom
