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.

• Preface List of Figures List of Contributors Karl Galinsky: Introduction Part I: Memory and Roman Writers 1: Alain Gowing: Memory as Motive in Tacitus 2: Brigitte Libby: Forgetful Theseus and Mindful Aeneas in Catullus 64 and Aeneid 4 3: Jörg Rüpke: Knowledge of Religion in Valerius Maximus' exempla: Roman Historiography and Tiberian Memory Culture Part II: Memory and Roman Emperors 4: Eric Orlin: Augustan Reconstruction and Roman Memory 5: Charles Hedrick, Jr.: Qualis artifex pereo: The Generation of Roman Memories of Nero Part III: Roman Honorific Statues: Memory or Just Honour? 6: Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp: In the Web of (Hi)stories: memoria: Monuments and Their Myth-historical 'Interconnectedness' 7: Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp: Marius, Sulla, and the War over Monumental Memory and Public Space 8: Diana Ng: Monuments, Memory, and Status Recognition in Roman Asia Minor Part IV: Memory in Roman Religion and Early Christianity 9: Nicola Denzey-Lewis: The Crafting of Memory in Late Roman Mortuary Spaces 10: John Kloppemborg: Memory, Performance and the Sayings of Jesus 11: Jodi Magness: Sweet Memory: Archaeological Evidence of Jesus in Jerusalem 12: Milton Moreland: Moving Peter to Rome: Social Memory and Ritualized Space After 70 CE Part V: A Perspective from Neuropsychology 13: Ann-Kathrin Stock, Hannah,Gajsar, and Onur Güntürkün: The Neuroscience of Memory Index

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.