Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras

Content: Introduction : a past without historians / John Marincola --
Homer and heroic history / Jonas Grethlein --
Hesiod on human history / Bruno Currie --
Helen and \'I\' in early Greek lyric / Deborah Boedeker --
Stesichorus and Ibycus : plain tales from the Western front / Ewen Bowie --
Pindar and the reconstruction of the past / Maria Pavlou --
Debating the past in Euripides\' Troades and Orestes and in Sophocles\' Electra / Ruth Scodel --
Euripidean explainers / Allen Romano --
Old comedy and popular history / Jeffrey Henderson --
Attic heroes and the construction of the Athenian past in the fifth century / H.A. Shapiro --
Family time : temporality, gender and materiality in Ancient Greece / Lin Foxhall --
Common knowledge and the contestation of history in some fourth-century Athenian trials / Jon Hesk --
Plato and the stability of history / Kathryn A. Morgan --
Inscribing the past in fourth-century Athens / S.D. Lambert --
The politics of the past : remembering revolution at Athens / Julia L. Shear --
\'Remembering the ancient way of life\' : primitivism in Greek sacrificial ritual / Emily Kearns --
The great kings of the fourth century and the Greek memory of the Persian past / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones --
Commentary / Simon Goldhill, Suzanne Saïd and Christopher Pelling.