Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1 The Decline and Repudiation of the Whole: Notes on Aristotle's Enclosure of the Pre-Socratic World 7
7. CHAPTER 2 The Development of Social Memory 28
8. CHAPTER 3 The Formation of Persian Political Identity 52
9. CHAPTER 4 Political Identities in Conflict: Herodotus in Contention with His Characters 79
10. CHAPTER 5 The Use of Herodotus in Contemporary Political and Cultural Criticism 112
11. CHAPTER 6 Before Objectivity, and After 142
12. Afterword: Arion’s Leap 167
13. Bibliography 169
14. Index 189