Memoria Romana - Memory in Rome and Rome in Memory

Klappentext Concern with memory permeated Roman literature! history! rhetorical training! and art and architecture. This is the first book to look at the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives! including cognitive science. There is no orthodoxy in memory studies and the approaches are both empirical and theoretical. A central issue is: who and what preserved and shaped cultural memory in Rome! and how did that process work? Zusammenfassung An illumination of memory-the defining aspect of Roman civilization

Product details

• Authors: G. Karl Galinsky
• Assisted by: G. Karl Galinsky (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2014
• EAN: 9780472119431
• ISBN: 978-0-472-11943-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies