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Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History without Historians

Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians is the proceeding of the sixth A. G. Leventis Conference at Edinburgh University. John Marincola, the Leventis Chair, conceived the conference theme and invited Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones to present a paper at the event. Subsequently Marincola invited Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver to co-edit the volume with him. The idea of the conference, and the edited volume, was to question the use made of ‘history’ in genres removed from ‘history’ proper. To that end, Llewellyn-Jones was asked to bring his expertise on a range of aspects of ancient Greek life (notably gender, drama, art, and ethnicity) to oversee and integrate a series of scholarly chapters harmoniously but rigorously into the overall theme of the volume. An overarching question provided the focus for the volume: would we have a sense of Greek conceptions of history if Greek historiography had not survived? All three editors commented on drafts of all papers but Llewellyn-Jones integrated the papers into thematic units and corresponded closely with the publisher. His own chapter, ‘The great kings of the fourth century and the Greek memory of the Persian past’ (pp. 317-46), an investigation into Greek evidence for remembering Persian history in art and drama, is submitted in the context of his research contribution to the volume as a whole.