Cultural memory in Republican and Augustan Rome / edited by Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dinter, Martin T., editor.

Guérin, Charles, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Rome.

Collective memory.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 475 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : cultural memory in Republican and Augustan Rome / Martin Dinter

War and cultural memory at the beginnings of Latin literature / Thomas Biggs

Creating Roman memories of Plautus / Anthony Corbeill

Comedy and its pasts / Martin Dinter

Semper manebit : poetry and cultural memory theory in Cicero's De legibus / Joshua Hartman

Varro and the re-foundation of Roman cultural memory through genealogy and humanitas / Irene Leonardis

Cultural memory, from monument to poem : the case of the temple of Apollo Palatinus in the Augustan poets / Bénédicte Delignon

Monumenta and the fallibility of memory in the odes / Samuel Beckelhymer

Constructing cultural memory in Ovid's Fasti : the case of Servius Tullius and Fortuna / Darja Šterbenc Erker

Sulla's Dictatorship rei publicae constituendae and Roman republican cultural memory / Alexandra Eckert

Remembering differently : the exemplarity of populares as a site of ideological contest in late republican oratory / Evan Jewell

Cultural memory and political change in the public speech of the late Roman republic / Catherine Steel

Remembering M. Brutus : from mixed and hostile perspectives / Kathryn Tempest

The making of an exemplum : Cato's Road to Uticensis in Roman cultural memory / Mark Thorne

Sites of exemplarity and the challenge of accessing the cultural memory of the Republic / Rebecca Langlands

The festival of the Lupercalia as a vehicle of cultural memory in the Roman republic / Krešimir Vukovic

Inscriptions on the Capitoline : epigraphy and cultural memory in Livy / Morgan Palmer

Cultural memory and the role of the architect in Vitruvius' De architectura / Edwin Shaw

Exchanging memories : coins, conquest, and resistance in Roman Iberia / Alyson M. Roy

Cicero and Clodius together : the porta romana inscriptions of Roman ostia as cultural memory / Christer Bruun

Augustan cultural memories in Roman Athens / Muriel Moser

Different pasts : sing and constructing memory in Augustan Carthage and Corinth / Gunther Schörner.

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9781009327749 (ebook)

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