Greek Memories

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).

Lucas Castagboli is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Fellow in Ancient Greek Philosophy at Oriel College. He is the author of Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine (Cambridge, 2010) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic (forthcoming). Paola Ceccarelli is Lecturer in Classical Greek History at University College London. She has published widely in the field of Greek cultural history and is the author of monographs on the ancient weapon dance, La pirrica nell'antichità greco romana (1998), and Greek epistolography, Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC–150 BC) (2013).