Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

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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-Hölkeskamp'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.

Product details

• Authors: Karl Galinsky
• Assisted by: Karl Galinsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780198822592
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882259-2
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, History of Religion, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory