Greek Memories: Theories and Practices
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9781108471725
- ISBN10 1108471722
- Tipus Llibre
- Pàgines 442
- Any Edició 2019
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Tapa dura
Greek Memories: Theories and Practices
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
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).