List of Contributors and Editors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Contents XI
5. List of Abbreviations XIII
6. Mechanisms of Memory and Forgetting 1
7. Part 1: Mechanisms and Criteria of Textual Loss and Selection
8. The Stobean Text Tradition of Pseudo- Aristotle De mundo 13
9. Pessimi poetae: On Philodemus, Ancient Tradition, and Selection Criteria 27
10. Callimachus’ Epigrams Before the Greek Anthology: Indirect Tradition from the Imperial Age (1^st–3^rd century) 55
11. Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Thuc. 5.13–15: The Classical Canon and the Fragments of Early Greek Historia 77
12. Part 2: Lost Texts (Re-)Discovered
13. Reading and Reconstruction Problems in a Herculaneum Roll with Complex Stratigraphy: The Case of P.Herc. 89/1301/1383 103
14. P.Giss.Univ. 2.17 Reconsidered 117
15. The Inscription of the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Castellaneta (Taranto): The History of a Rediscovered Titulus 131
16. Hesiodic Quotations in the Scholia to Homer: Textual Variants and Traces of Ancient Exegesis 145
17. Part 3: Voluntary Omissions and Desire for Oblivion
18. Better Not to Speak under Trajan? Reticence and Omission in Tacitus 163
19. Damnatio Memoriae of the High-Ranking Senatorial Office-Holders in the Later Roman Empire, 337–415 185
20. Oblivio non natura nobis venit: Cassiodorus and the Lost Gothic History 215
21. Part 4: Re-Working the Known
22. Archaic Heroism in Euripides’ Scyrians 235
23. An Example of Erotic Heroism: The Controversial Case of the Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidamia 255
24. Literary Allusion towards Politics (Claud. Cons. Stil. 1.1–9) 267
25. Traces of Sophocles’ Tereus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 6.424–674 281
26. List of Contributors and Editors 303
27. Index 307