Screen LibraryCultural memory in Republican and Augustan Rome /
"Cultural memory theory explains why, how, with what results we remember certain information. This book explores these questions in relation to late Republican and Augustan Rome and provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the topic, whilst also appealing t...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Cultural memory theory explains why, how, with what results we remember certain information. This book explores these questions in relation to late Republican and Augustan Rome and provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the topic, whilst also appealing to the seasoned scholar"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 475 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-465) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781009327756 1009327755 |
| Index Number: | DG231 |
| CLC: | K126 |
| Call Number: | K126/C968 |
| Contents: | Introduction : what is cultural memory? / Martin T. 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 T. 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 E. 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 : using and constructing memory in Augustan Carthage and Corinth / Gunther Schörner. |