Remembering Parthenope

Jessica Hughes is a Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. Claudio Buongiovanni is a Research Fellow in Latin Language and Literature in the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples Federico II.

Acknowledgements ; List of Figures ; List of Contributors ; 1. Introduction: Entering the Siren's City ; 2. Setting the Agenda: The Image of Classical Naples in Strabo's Geography and other Ancient Literary Sources ; 3. The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Mythic Origins of Neapolis ; 4. Colonizing the Past: Cultural Memory and Civic Identity in Hellenistic and Roman Naples ; 5. Greek Magistrates in Roman Naples? Law and Memory from the Fourth Century BC to the Fourth Century AD ; 6. Between Classical and Modern Naples: 'Cultural Forgetting' at the Time of the Gothic War ; 7. Marmora Romana in Medieval Naples: Architectural Spolia from the Fourth to Fifteenth Centuries AD ; 8. Virgiliana Neapolis urbs: Receptions of Classical Naples in the Swabian and Early Angevin Ages ; 9. Naples: A Poets' City and its Attitude towards Virgil and Statius in the Fifteenth Century ; 10. Memories from the Subsoil: Discovering Antiquities in Fifteenth-Century Naples ; 11. City Branding and the Antique: Naples in Early Modern City Guides ; 12. Ex dirutis marmoribus: The Theatins and the Columns of the Temple of the Dioscuri in Naples ; 13. Reshaping the Past, Shaping the Present: De Jorio and Naples' Classical Heritage ; 14. 'No Retreat, Even When Broken': Classical Architecture in the Presepe Napoletano ; 15. Neapolis and the Future of Naples' Museums ; 16. Parthenope on the Metro: or, Links with the Past, on the Journey into the Future ; Bibliography ; Index