Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Acknowledgements IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: The Mechanics of Memory
7. Taking a Walk through Rome…: Comedic Itineraries and Early Republican Spatial Memory 19
8. Quoting from Memory? Shared Knowledge in Cicero’s Book Fragments of Accius’ Atreus 41
9. Part II: Collective Memory
10. Memories of Glory: Poetry, Prose, and Commemoration in the Heraclidae 71
11. Ovid’s Poetics of Memory and Oblivion in his Exilic Poetry 89
12. The Memory of Marcus Regulus and Cannae in Plautus’ Captivi 103
13. Divine Memories and the Shaping of Olympus in the Iliad 123
14. Part III: Female Memory
15. The Manipulation of Memory in Apollonius’ Argonautica 145
16. Bound to Break Boundaries: Memory and Identity in Seneca’s Medea 165
17. Audita mente notaui: (Meta)memory, Gender, and Pastoral Impersonation in the Speech of Ovid’s Galatea 193
18. Part IV: Oblivion
19. Ovid’s Labyrinthine Ars: Pasiphae and the Dangers of Poetic Memory in the Metamorphoses 219
20. Divine Memory, Mortal Forgetfulness and Human Misfortune 247
21. Forgetfulness as a Narrative Device in Herodotus’ Histories 267
22. Part V: Further Thoughts
23. Memory and its Discontents in Ancient Literature 293
24. List of Contributors 309
25. Index Rerum et Nominum 313
26. Index Locorum 315