Greek Memories

Theories and Practices

Luca Castagnoli, Paola Ceccarelli

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108471725
• eBook ISBN: 9781108576277
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Colecciones literarias antiguas y clásicas

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. It explores the interaction and development of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece, which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of the whole phenomenon, and of its specific manifestations. This collection of papers contributes to enriching the current scholarly discussion by refocusing it on the question of how various theories and practices of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in specific texts and authors from Ancient Greece, within a wide chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across a broad range of genres and disciplines (epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose treatises).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I Archaic and Early Classical Configurations of Memory
• Part II Memory and Forgetting in the Classical Period
• Part III Hellenistic Configurations of Memory
• Part IV The Imperial Period: Continuity and Change
• Part V Envoi
• References
• Index Locorum
• Subject Index