
Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity
Karl Galinsky(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 19. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-0-19-882259-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Karl Galinsky is not a scholar to embrace such rigid or facile dichotomies. In a lifetime of scholarship on Augustus, classical reception, and now, on social memory, Galinsky has consistently and vocally advocated the need to tear down conceptual walls . . . This book succeeds in telling a powerful story . . . anyone who values dialogue -- between science and the humanities, classics and religious studies, or among people of faith learning more about their own religious traditions -- will recognize its implication: memories that have been acquired through learned behavior can, with some difficulty, be unlearned, too. * Douglas Boin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * I found this book very interesting. Galinsky, I believe, has provided historians of Ancient Rome with an intriguing collection of essays on the role of memory. The essays as a whole demonstrate the viability of this field of study. * Stephen Campbell, Sheperds * Similarly, perhaps the most unique and interesting feature of this book is the final essay; one does not frequently encounter neuroscientific discussions of memory, neuronal networks, and brain plasticity in books on Roman or early Christian history! Between these two bookends, Libby's discussion of memory and intertextuality, Hedrick's quadrangular model of memory, history, experience, and fantasy, Stein-Hoelkeskamp's prefiguration of the collapse of the Republic in Sulla's take-over of Roman monumental memory, and Denzey Lewis' presentation of a pagan response to the Empire's Christianization stand out as especially read-worthy . . . these essays provide an admirable example of the uses to which historians of antiquity are putting the amorphous field of memory studies. * Rafael Rodriguez, Enoch Seminar *More details
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-882259-2 (9780198822592)
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Karl Galinsky is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and University Distinguished Teaching ProfessorFloyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Content
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: Joerg Ruepke: 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 Hoelkeskamp: In the Web of (Hi)stories: memoria: Monuments and Their Myth-historical 'Interconnectedness'
7: Elke Stein-Hoelkeskamp: 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 Guentuerkuen: The Neuroscience of Memory
Index
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: Joerg Ruepke: 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 Hoelkeskamp: In the Web of (Hi)stories: memoria: Monuments and Their Myth-historical 'Interconnectedness'
7: Elke Stein-Hoelkeskamp: 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 Guentuerkuen: The Neuroscience of Memory
Index