Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Herodotus and Oral History -- 3. Ancestors of Historiography in Early Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry? -- 4. Hecataeus: From Genealogy to Historiography -- 5. Early Historiē and Literacy -- 6. Constructing the Past: Colonial Traditions and the Writing of History. The Case of Cyrene -- 7. Local Knowledge in Herodotus' Histories -- 8. Kissing Cousins: Some Curious Cases of Adjacent Material in Herodotus -- 9. The Herodotean Picture of Themistocles: A Mirror of Fifth-century Athens -- 10. Herodotus' Histories and the Floating Gap -- 11. Herodotus' Egypt and the Foundations of Universal History -- 12. The Beginnings of Chronography: Hellanicus' Hiereiai -- 13. Thucydides' Archaeology: Between Epic and Oral Traditions -- 14. Myth, History, and Collective Identity: Uses of the Past in Ancient Greece and Beyond -- 15. Herodotus and Oral History Reconsidered -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Locorum -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- P -- S -- T -- V -- X -- Z -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- X -- Z.