Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World

John Baines is Professor of Egyptology Emeritus at the University of Oxford. Henriette van der Blom is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. Yi Samuel Chen is Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Tim Rood is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is the Dorothea Gray Fellow and Tutor in Classics at St Hugh's College.

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. 1‘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. 2History 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 Oxford3
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