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An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.
List of contents
Introduction Luca Castagnoli and Paola Ceccarelli; Part I. Archaic and Early Classical Configurations of Memory: 1. Women and memory: the Iliad and the Kosovo cycle Lilah Grace Canevaro; 2. Speaking in the wax tablets of memory Peter Agócs; Part II. Memory and Forgetting in the Classical Period: 3. Economies of memory in Greek tragedy Paola Ceccarelli; 4. Aristophanes and his Muses, or memory in a comic key Silvia Milanezi; 5. Memory, the orators and the public in fourth-century BC Athens Mirko Canevaro; 6. The place and nature of memory in Greek historiography Catherine Darbo-Peschanski; 7. Lyric oblivion: when Sappho taught Socrates how to forget Andrea Capra; 8. Socratic forgetfulness and Platonic irony Ynon Wygoda; 9. Memory and recollection in Plato's Philebus: use and definitions R. A. H. King; 10. Is memory of the past? Aristotle and the objects of memory Luca Castagnoli; Part III. Hellenistic Configurations of Memory: 11. Hellenistic Cultural Memory: Helen and Menelaus between heroic fiction, ritual practice and poetic praise of the royal power (Theocritus 18) Claude Calame; 12. Physics, memory, ethics: the Epicurean road to happiness Emidio Spinelli; Part IV. The Imperial Period: Continuity and Change: 13. Claudius Aelianus: memory, mnemonics, and literature in the age of Caracalla Steven D. Smith; 14. Plotinus on memory, recollection and discursive thought Riccardo Chiaradonna; 15. Plotinus: remembering and forgetting Stephen R. L. Clark; Part V. Envoi: 16. Greek philosophers on how to memorise - and learn Maria Michela Sassi.
About the author
Lucas Castagboli is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Fellow in Ancient Greek Philosophy at Oriel College. He is the author of Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine (Cambridge, 2010) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic (forthcoming).Paola Ceccarelli is Lecturer in Classical Greek History at University College London. She has published widely in the field of Greek cultural history and is the author of monographs on the ancient weapon dance, La pirrica nell'antichità greco romana (1998), and Greek epistolography, Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC–150 BC) (2013).
Summary
Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices.
