Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882259-2 (ISBN)

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What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history written in retrospect; they are malleable and an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction. Ancient Rome provided much of the cultural framework for early Christianity, and in both the role of memory was pervasive. Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity presents perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary range of contributors on the literature, history, archaeology, and religion of a major world civilization, based on an informed engagement with important concepts and issues in memory studies. Moving beyond terms such as 'collective', 'social', and 'cultural memory' as standard tropes, the volume offers a selective exploration of the wealth of topics which comprise memory studies, and also features a contribution from a leading neuroscientist on the actual workings of the human memory. It is an importamt resource for anyone interested in Roman antiquity, the beginnings of Christianity, and the role of memory in history.

Karl Galinsky is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Preface
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Karl Galinsky: Introduction
Part I: Memory and Roman Writers
1: Alain Gowing: Memory as Motive in Tacitus
2: Brigitte Libby: Forgetful Theseus and Mindful Aeneas in Catullus 64 and Aeneid 4
3: Jörg Rüpke: Knowledge of Religion in Valerius Maximus' exempla: Roman Historiography and Tiberian Memory Culture
Part II: Memory and Roman Emperors
4: Eric Orlin: Augustan Reconstruction and Roman Memory
5: Charles Hedrick, Jr.: Qualis artifex pereo: The Generation of Roman Memories of Nero
Part III: Roman Honorific Statues: Memory or Just Honour?
6: Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp: In the Web of (Hi)stories: memoria: Monuments and Their Myth-historical 'Interconnectedness'
7: Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp: Marius, Sulla, and the War over Monumental Memory and Public Space
8: Diana Ng: Monuments, Memory, and Status Recognition in Roman Asia Minor
Part IV: Memory in Roman Religion and Early Christianity
9: Nicola Denzey-Lewis: The Crafting of Memory in Late Roman Mortuary Spaces
10: John Kloppemborg: Memory, Performance and the Sayings of Jesus
11: Jodi Magness: Sweet Memory: Archaeological Evidence of Jesus in Jerusalem
12: Milton Moreland: Moving Peter to Rome: Social Memory and Ritualized Space After 70 CE
Part V: A Perspective from Neuropsychology
13: Ann-Kathrin Stock, Hannah,Gajsar, and Onur Güntürkün: The Neuroscience of Memory
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.06.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 216 mm
Gewicht	528 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-882259-6 / 0198822596
ISBN-13	978-0-19-882259-2 / 9780198822592
Zustand	Neuware