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Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire
Karl Galinsky
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Description for Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire
Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Memory 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, ... Read more
Memory 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1135g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606064627
SKU
V9781606064627
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About Karl Galinsky
Karl Galinsky is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Kenneth Lapatin is associate curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum and is most recently the coeditor of Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World (Getty Publications, 2015) and author of Luxus: The Sumptuous Arts ... Read more
Reviews for Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire
In her introduction essay, Susan Alcock, one of the pioneers in the field, compares the undertaking to a kaleidoscope. This metaphor could describe this book: not a lens or filter, but a Roman world in all its variegate aspects. -Art Newspaper