EARLY GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY

Reviews "The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus", edited by N. Luraghi. The nexus of this book's fourteen essays, most of which treat with Herodotus, is precisely the background of early Greek historiography. More particularly, it is the historian's "embeddedness" in his social and literary context, the influence and impact of the "fast changing mix" of oral and written, and himself and his knowledge as part of the "wider framework of fifth century Greek culture", that provide scope for this collection. (Quotes from original text)