Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory

ساخت و از بین بردن حافظه باستانی شیوه ای را بررسی می کند که یونانیان و رومیان باستان در آن گذشته خود را بازنمایی می کردند و به نوبه خود چگونه ادبیات و دانش مدرن به دریافت و انتقال برخی از جنبه های فرهنگ باستان نزدیک شده است.

این کتاب دیدگاه‌های علمی ارزشمندی را به دانشگاهیان و محققان علاقه‌مند به حافظه، تاریخ‌نگاری، و بازنمایی‌های گذشته در جهان باستان، و همچنین کسانی که روی سنت‌های ادبی و مطالعات پذیرش به طور گسترده‌تر کار می‌کنند، ارائه می‌دهد.

Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory explores the way in which ancient Greeks and Romans represented their past, and in turn how modern literature and scholarship has approached the reception and transmission of some aspects of ancient culture.

The contributions, organised into three sections - Political Legacies, Religious Identities, and Literary Traditions - explore case studies in memory and reception of the past. Through studying the techniques and strategies of ancient historiography, biography, hagiography, and art, as well as their effectiveness, this volume demonstrates how humanity has inevitably conveyed memory and history with (sub)conscious biases and preconceived ideas. In the current age of alternative facts, fake news, and post-truth discourses, these chapters highlight that such phenomena are by no means a recent development.

This book offers valuable scholarly perspectives to academics and scholars interested in memory, historiography, and representations of the past in the ancient world, as well as those working on literary traditions and reception studies more broadly.