Ancient Memory : : Remembrance and Commemoration in Graeco-Roman Literature /

Ancient Memory : : Remembrance and Commemoration in Graeco-Roman Literature / / ed. by Katharine Mawford, Eleni Ntanou.

Although the recent ‘memory boom’ has led to increasing interdisciplinary interest, there is a significant gap relating to the examination of this topic in Classics. In particular, there is need for a systematic exploration of ancient memory and its use as a critical and methodological tool for delv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Burke-Tomlinson, Hannah,
Cook, Kate,
Cosgrave, Elinor,
Haley, Maria,
Hernández Garcés, Carlos,
Hunter, Richard,
Kostecka, Katarzyna,
Mawford, Katharine,
Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,
Morrison, A. D.,
Ngan, Sophie,
Ntanou, Eleni,
Papaioannou, Sophia,
HerausgeberIn:
Mawford, Katharine,
Ntanou, Eleni,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 119
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 320 p.)
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Table of 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

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