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Hughes, Jessica
(2014).
URL: http://www.press.umich.edu/6421151/memoria_romana
Abstract
[About the book]
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? Areas and subjects covered include the Romans' view of the changing physical fabric of the city, monuments (by etymology related to memory) such as the Arch of Constantine, memory and the Roman triumph, Roman copies of Greek sculpture and their relation to memory, the importance of written information and of continuing process, the creation of memory in Republican memoirs and Flavian poetry, the invention of traditions, and the connection of cultural and digital memory.
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- 36766
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- ISBN
- 0-472-11943-5, 978-0-472-11943-1
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set Max Planck 'Memoria Romana' Project, led by Professor Karl Galinksy - Keywords
- memory; Rome; Arch of Constantine
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Classical Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2013 Regents of the University of Michigan
- Depositing User
- Jessica Hughes