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Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts
underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world,
from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main
literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these
theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development
of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece,
which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of the whole
phenomenon, and of its specific manifestations. This collection of
papers contributes to enriching the current scholarly discussion by
refocusing it on the question of how various theories and practices
of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in
specific texts and authors from Ancient Greece, within a wide
chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across
a broad range of genres and disciplines (epic and lyric poetry,
tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose
treatises).
The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author
and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate
thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites
such iconic notions as the letter representing an 'image of the
soul of the author' or constituting 'one half of a dialogue'.
However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in
particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues
that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world
and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In
particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently
presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed,
to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the
interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world,
examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction
and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether
social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical. A
theoretically informed Introduction establishes the interface of
epistolary discourse and group formation as a vital but hitherto
neglected area of research, and is followed by thirteen case
studies offering multi-disciplinary perspectives from four key
cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.
The first part opens the volume with two chapters on the theory and
practice of epistolary communication that focus on ancient
epistolary theory and the unavoidable presence of a letter-carrier
who introduces a communal aspect into any correspondence, while the
second comprises five chapters that explore configurations of power
and epistolary communication in the Greek and Roman worlds, from
the archaic period to the end of the Hellenistic age. Five chapters
on letters and communities in Ancient Judaism and Early
Christianity follow in the third, part before the volume concludes
with an envoi examining the trans-historical, or indeed timeless,
philosophical community Seneca the Younger construes in his Letters
to Lucilius.
Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts
underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world,
from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main
literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these
theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development
of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece,
which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of the whole
phenomenon, and of its specific manifestations. This collection of
papers contributes to enriching the current scholarly discussion by
refocusing it on the question of how various theories and practices
of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in
specific texts and authors from Ancient Greece, within a wide
chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across
a broad range of genres and disciplines (epic and lyric poetry,
tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose
treatises).
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