Fragmented Memory : : Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History /

Fragmented Memory : : Omission, Selection, and Loss in Ancient and Medieval Literature and History / / ed. by Nicoletta Bruno, Martina Filosa, Giulia Marinelli.

Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts – or lack thereof. However, the same cannot be said for what concerns the mechanisms of selection and loss of historical and literary memory, where the voluntary aw...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Basile, Gastón Javier,
Bodnaruk, Mariana,
Bruno, Nicoletta,
Cristini, Marco,
Dorandi, Tiziano,
D’Angelo, Marzia,
Filosa, Martina,
Grimaldi, Alessandra,
Mancuso, Sabrina,
Marinelli, Giulia,
Moles, Francesco,
Pelucchi, Marco,
Polignano, Elisa Antonella,
Santomauro, Silvia,
Santori, Chiara Gennari,
Taxidis, Georgios,
Trotta, Filippo,
HerausgeberIn:
Bruno, Nicoletta,
Filosa, Martina,
Marinelli, Giulia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 404
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 325 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Mechanisms of Memory and Forgetting
  • Part 1: Mechanisms and Criteria of Textual Loss and Selection
  • The Stobean Text Tradition of Pseudo- Aristotle De mundo
  • Pessimi poetae: On Philodemus, Ancient Tradition, and Selection Criteria
  • Callimachus’ Epigrams Before the Greek Anthology: Indirect Tradition from the Imperial Age (1st–3rd century)
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Thuc. 5.13–15: The Classical Canon and the Fragments of Early Greek Historia
  • Part 2: Lost Texts (Re-)Discovered
  • Reading and Reconstruction Problems in a Herculaneum Roll with Complex Stratigraphy: The Case of P.Herc. 89/1301/1383
  • P.Giss.Univ. 2.17 Reconsidered
  • The Inscription of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Castellaneta (Taranto): The History of a Rediscovered Titulus
  • Hesiodic Quotations in the Scholia to Homer: Textual Variants and Traces of Ancient Exegesis
  • Part 3: Voluntary Omissions and Desire for Oblivion
  • Better Not to Speak under Trajan? Reticence and Omission in Tacitus
  • Damnatio Memoriae of the High-Ranking Senatorial Office-Holders in the Later Roman Empire, 337–415
  • Oblivio non natura nobis venit: Cassiodorus and the Lost Gothic History
  • Part 4: Re-Working the Known
  • Archaic Heroism in Euripides’ Scyrians
  • An Example of Erotic Heroism: The Controversial Case of the Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidamia
  • Literary Allusion towards Politics (Claud. Cons. Stil. 1.1–9)
  • Traces of Sophocles’ Tereus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 6.424–674
  • List of Contributors and Editors
  • Index

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