Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity

Karl Galinsky is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

• PART I: MEMORY AND ROMAN WRITERS; PART II: MEMORY AND ROMAN EMPERORS; PART III: ROMAN HONORIFIC STATUES: MEMORY OR JUST HONOUR?; PART IV: MEMORY IN ROMAN RELIGION AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY; PART V: A PERSPECTIVE FROM NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Karl Galinsky is not a scholar to embrace such rigid or facile dichotomies. In a lifetime of scholarship on Augustus, classical reception, and now, on social memory, Galinsky has consistently and vocally advocated the need to tear down conceptual walls ... This book succeeds in telling a powerful story ... anyone who values dialogue -- between science and the humanities, classics and religious studies, or among people of faith learning more about their own religious traditions -- will recognize its implication: memories that have been acquired through learned behavior can, with some difficulty, be unlearned, too.