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Ancient memory : remembrance and commemoration in Graeco-Roman literature / edited by Katherine Mawford and Eleni Ntanou.

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Book
Contributor:
Mawford, Katherine, editor.
Ntanou, Eleni, editor.
Walter de Gruyter & Co.
Series:
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; 119.
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; 119
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Classical literature.
Memory in literature.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 320 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Mechanics of Memory
Taking a Walk through Rome...: Comedic Itineraries and Early Republican Spatial Memory
Quoting from Memory? Shared Knowledge in Cicero's Book Fragments of Accius' Atreus
Part II: Collective Memory
Memories of Glory: Poetry, Prose, and Commemoration in the Heraclidae
Ovid's Poetics of Memory and Oblivion in his Exilic Poetry
The Memory of Marcus Regulus and Cannae in Plautus' Captivi
Divine Memories and the Shaping of Olympus in the Iliad
Part III: Female Memory
The Manipulation of Memory in Apollonius' Argonautica
Bound to Break Boundaries: Memory and Identity in Seneca's Medea
Audita mente notaui: (Meta)memory, Gender, and Pastoral Impersonation in the Speech of Ovid's Galatea
Part IV: Oblivion
Ovid's Labyrinthine Ars: Pasiphae and the Dangers of Poetic Memory in the Metamorphoses
Divine Memory, Mortal Forgetfulness and Human Misfortune
Forgetfulness as a Narrative Device in Herodotus' Histories
Part V: Further Thoughts
Memory and its Discontents in Ancient Literature
List of Contributors
Index Rerum et Nominum
Index Locorum
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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ISBN:
9783110728798
3110728796
Publisher Number:
99988373158
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