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Informationen zum Autor MARTIN T. DINTER is Reader in Latin Literature and Language at King's College London. He is the author of Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique (2012) and co-editor of A Companion to the Neronian Age (2013), three volumes entitled Reading Roman Declamation with focus on Quintilian (2016), Calpurnius Flaccus (2018) and Seneca the Elder (2020) and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy (Cambridge, 2019). CHARLES GUÉRIN is Professor of Latin Literature at Sorbonne Université, Paris. He has published monographs on the rhetorical notion of persona (2009, 2011) and on witness testimony in the Roman courts of the first century BC (La Voix de la verité, 2015). In addition he has edited and co-edited several volumes on ancient rhetoric, oratory, declamation, and literature. He serves on the executive committee of L'Année Philologique. Klappentext "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"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: 1. Introduction: cultural memory in republican and Augustan Rome Martin Dinter; Part II. Writing Cultural Memory: 2. War and cultural memory at the beginnings of Latin literature Thomas Biggs; 3. Creating Roman memories of Plautus Anthony Corbeill; 4. Comedy and its pasts Martin Dinter; 5. Semper manebit: poetry and cultural memory theory in Cicero's de legibus Joshua Hartman; 6. Varro and the re-foundation of Roman cultural memory through genealogy and humanitas Irene Leonardis; 7. Cultural memory, from monument to poem: the case of the temple of Apollo Palatinus in the Augustan poets Bénédicte Delignon; 8. Monumenta and the fallibility of memory in the odes Samuel Beckelhymer; 9. Constructing cultural memory in ovid's fasti: the case of servius tullius and fortuna Darja Šterbenc Erker; Part III. Politicising Cultural Memory: 10. Sulla's dictatorship rei publicae constituendae and Roman republican cultural memory Alexandra Eckert; 11. Remembering differently: the exemplarity of populares as a site of ideological contest in late republican oratory Evan Jewell; 12. Cultural memory and political change in the public speech of the late Roman republic Catherine Steel; 13. Remembering M. Brutus: from mixed and hostile perspectives Kathryn Tempest; 14. The making of an exemplum: Cato's road to uticensis in Roman cultural memory Mark Thorne; Part IV. Building Cultural Memory: 15. Sites of exemplarity and the challenge of accessing the cultural memory of the republic Rebecca Langlands; 16. The festival of the lupercalia as a vehicle of cultural memory in the Roman republic Krešimir Vukovi¿; 17. Inscriptions on the capitoline: epigraphy and cultural memory in livy Morgan Palmer; 18. Cultural memory and the role of the architect in vitruvius' de architectura Edwin Shaw; Part V. Locating Cultural Memory: 19. Exchanging memories: coins, conquest, and resistance in Roman Iberia Alyson M. Roy; 20. Cicero and Clodius together: the porta romana inscriptions of Roman ostia as cultural memory Christer Bruun; 21. Augustan cultural memories in Roman Athens Muriel Moser; 22. Different pasts: sing and constructing memory in Augustan Carthage and Corinth Gunther Schörner; Indices; Bibliography....
