Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Memory and Roman Writers Memory as Motive in Tacitus .............43 Forgetful Theseus and Mindful Aeneas in Catullus 64 and aeneid 4 ................65 Knowledge of Region in Valerius Maximus Exempla: Roman Historiography and Tiberian memory culture ...............89 2. Memory and Roman Emperors Augustan Reconstruction and Roman Memory ...........115 Qualis Artifex pereo: The Generation of Roman Memories of Nero ......145 3. Roman Honorific Statues: Memory or Just Honour? In the Web of Stories : Memoria, Monuments, and their myth- historical interconnectedness................169 Marius, Sulla, and the war over monumental memory and public space ...........214 Monuments, Memory, and status recognition in Roman Asia Minor ................235 4. Memory in Roman Religion and Early Christianity The Cafting of Memory in late Roman Mortuary spaces ........263 Memory, Performance, and the sayings of Jesus ...........286 Sweet memory : Archaeological Evidence of Jesus in Jerusalem ....................324 Moving peter to Rome: Social Memory and Ritualized Space After 70 CE............................344 5. A perspective from Neuropsychology The Neuroscience of Memory .......369