Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome
Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces of information are remembered. This volume brings together distinguished classicists from a variety of sub-disciplines to explore cultural memory in the Roman Republic and the Age of Augustus. It provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the intersection between cultural memory theory and ancient Rome, whilst also appealing to the seasoned scholar. The chapters delve deep into memory theory, going beyond the canonical texts of Jan Assmann and Pierre Nora and pushing their terminology towards Basu's dispositifs, Roller's intersignifications, Langlands' sites of exemplarity, and Erll's horizons. This innovative framework enables a fresh analysis of both fragmentary texts and archaeological phenomena not discussed elsewhere.
- Applies the framework of cultural memory theory to Roman literature and history
- Covers a wide range of topics, from literary texts to history and archaeology
- Written in an accessible style in order to engage readers at all levels of expertise
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Table of Contents
- Part I:
- 1. Introduction: cultural memory in republican and Augustan Rome Martin Dinter
- Part II. Writing Cultural Memory:
- 2. War and cultural memory at the beginnings of Latin literature Thomas Biggs
- 3. Creating Roman memories of Plautus Anthony Corbeill
- 4. Comedy and its pasts Martin Dinter
- 5. Semper manebit: poetry and cultural memory theory in Cicero's de legibus Joshua Hartman
- 6. Varro and the re-foundation of Roman cultural memory through genealogy and humanitas Irene Leonardis
- 7. Cultural memory, from monument to poem: the case of the temple of Apollo Palatinus in the Augustan poets Bénédicte Delignon
- 8. Monumenta and the fallibility of memory in the odes Samuel Beckelhymer
- 9. Constructing cultural memory in ovid's fasti: the case of servius tullius and fortuna Darja Å terbenc Erker
- Part III. Politicising Cultural Memory:
- 10. Sulla's dictatorship rei publicae constituendae and Roman republican cultural memory Alexandra Eckert
- 11. Remembering differently: the exemplarity of populares as a site of ideological contest in late republican oratory Evan Jewell
- 12. Cultural memory and political change in the public speech of the late Roman republic Catherine Steel
- 13. Remembering M. Brutus: from mixed and hostile perspectives Kathryn Tempest
- 14. The making of an exemplum: Cato's road to uticensis in Roman cultural memory Mark Thorne
- Part IV. Building Cultural Memory:
- 15. Sites of exemplarity and the challenge of accessing the cultural memory of the republic Rebecca Langlands
- 16. The festival of the lupercalia as a vehicle of cultural memory in the Roman republic Krešimir Vuković
- 17. Inscriptions on the capitoline: epigraphy and cultural memory in livy Morgan Palmer
- 18. Cultural memory and the role of the architect in vitruvius' de architectura Edwin Shaw
- Part V. Locating Cultural Memory:
- 19. Exchanging memories: coins, conquest, and resistance in Roman Iberia Alyson M. Roy
- 20. Cicero and Clodius together: the porta romana inscriptions of Roman ostia as cultural memory Christer Bruun
- 21. Augustan cultural memories in Roman Athens Muriel Moser
- 22. Different pasts: sing and constructing memory in Augustan Carthage and Corinth Gunther Schörner
- Indices
- Bibliography.
