Part V. A perspective from neuropsychology / Memory as motive in Tacitus / Onur Gunturkun. Forgetful Theseus and mindful Aeneas in Catullus 64 and Aeneid 4 / Brigitte B. Libby -- Knowledge of religion in Valerius Maximus' Exempla: Roman historiography and Tiberian memory culture / Jorg Rupke -- Part II. Memory and Roman emperors. Augustan reconstruction and Roman memory / Eric Orlin -- Qualis Artifex Pereo: the generation of Roman memories of Nero / Charles W. Hedrick, Jr. -- Part III. Roman honorific statues: memory or just honour? In the web of (hi-)stories: memoria, monuments, and their myth-historical 'interconnectedness' / Karl-J. Holkeskamp -- Marius, Sulla, and the war over monumental memory and public space / Elke Stein-Holkeskamp -- Monuments, memory, and status recognition in Roman Asia Minor / Diana Y. Ng -- Part IV. Memory in Roman religion and early Christianity. The crafting of memory in late Roman mortuary spaces / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Memory, performance, and the sayings of Jesus / John S. Kloppenborg -- Sweet memory: archaeological evidence of Jesus in Jerusalem / Jodi Magness -- Moving Peter to Rome: social memory and ritualized space after 70 CE / Milton Moreland -- Part V. A perspective from neuropsychology / The neuroscience of memory / Ann-Kathrin Stock, Hannah Gajsar, Onur Gunturkun.
Summary:
What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history written in retrospect; they are malleable and an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction. Ancient Rome provided much of the cultural framework for early Christianity, and in both the role of memory was pervasive. 'Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity' presents perspectives from an international and interdisciplinary range of contributors on the literature, history, archaeology, and religion of a major world civilization, based on an informed engagement with important concepts and issues in memory studies. It offers a selective exploration of the wealth of topics which comprise memory studies, and also features a contribution from a leading neuroscientist on the actual workings of the human memory.
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