Title: Memoria Romana : memory in Rome and Rome in memory /
Authors: Galinsky, Karl, 1942-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Memory Social aspects Rome History Congresses.; Memory Social aspects Italy Rome History Congresses.; Collective memory Rome History Congresses.; Collective memory Italy Rome History Congresses.; Memorials Rome History Congresses.; Memorials Italy Rome History Congresses.; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.; Rome Social life and customs Congresses.; Rome (Italy) Social life and customs Congresses.; Rome Intellectual life Congresses.; Rome (Italy) Intellectual life Congresses.
Abstract: "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. The ten chapters present original findings that complement earlier scholarship from the perspective of memory and open up new horizons for inquiry. The introduction by volume editor Karl Galinsky situates the work within current studies on cultural and social memory, and the concluding chapter by Daniel Libeskind provides the perspective of a contemporary practitioner. Additional contributors include Richard Jenkyns, Harriet I. Flower, T. P. Wiseman, Karl-J. Holkeskamp, Gianpiero Rosati, Diane Favro, Jessica Hughes, Anna Anguissola, Lisa Marie Mignone, and Bernard Frischer"--
Contents: Introduction / Karl Galinsky -- PART I. ROME : MEMORY AND MEMOIRS. The Memory of Rome in Rome / Richard Jenkyns -- Memory and Memoirs in Republican Rome / Harriet I. Flower -- PART II. MEMORIA IN ANCIENT ROME. Popular Memory / T.P. Wiseman -- In Defense of Concepts, Categories, and Other Abstractions : Remarks on a Theory of Memory (in the Making) / Karl-J. Hölkeskamp -- Memory, Myth, and Power in Statius's Silvae / Gianpiero Rosata -- PART III. MEMORIA IN ROMAN ART AND TOPOGRAPHY. Moving Events : Curating the Memory of the Roman Triumph / Diane Favro -- Memory and the Roman Viewer : Looking at the Arch of Constantine / Jessica Hughes -- Remembering with Greek Masterpieces : Observations on Memory and Roman Copies / Anna Anguissola -- PART IV. ANCIENT AND MODERN MEMORIES. Remembering a Geography of Resistance : Plebian Secessions, Then and Now / Lisa Marie Mignone -- Cultural and Digital Memory : Case Studies from The Virtual World Heritage Laboratory / Bernard Frischer -- EPILOGUE: Memorials and Their Voices / Daniel Libeskind.