Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire

Edited by Karl Galinsky and Kenneth LapatinWith contributions by Susan Alcock, Jas’ Elsner, Alicia Jiménez, Zena Kamash, Rachel Kousser, Elizabeth Marlowe, Carlos Noreña, Felipe Rojas, C. Brian Rose, Steven Rutledge, John Weisweiler, Tim Whitmarsh, Greg Woolf, and Ann Marie YasinMemory studies—one of the most vibrant research fields of the present day—brings together such diverse disciplines as art and archaeology, history, religion, literature, sociology, media studies, and neuroscience. In scholarship on ancient Rome, studies of social and cultural memory complement traditional approaches, opening up new horizons as we contemplate the ancient world.The fifteen essays presented here explore memory in the Roman Empire, addressing a wide spectrum of cultural phenomena from a range of approaches. Ancient Rome was a memory culture par excellence and memory pervades all aspects of Roman culture, from literature and art to religion and politics. This volume is the first to address the cultu