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Beschreibung
Forgetting pervades Greek and Roman culture: it shapes the underworld, divine spheres, and human life. Forgetting stands at the beginning of life, when the souls of the dead drink forgetfulness from the river Lethe in the underworld before they are reborn. In Hesiod, Lethe (Forgetfulness) is personified as a goddess, the daughter of Eris (Strife). In Ovid, lovers seeking to forget an unhappy love affair turn to the god Amor Lethaeus for help.

This book analyses different forms of forgetting and their relationship to textual, authorial, and political power in Greek and Latin literary texts, spanning from Homer to Roman imperial literature and including a wide variety of genres. All chapters share a common focus: the processes and instances of forgetting they examine were not completely successful. The types of forgetting discussed are multifaceted: they range from unconscious to conscious ignorance and the fading of unwanted memories, to more forceful forms such as overwriting and active suppression, as well as marked forgetting that paradoxically results in un-forgetting.

Forgetting pervades Greek and Roman culture: it shapes the underworld, divine spheres, and human life. Forgetting stands at the beginning of life, when the souls of the dead drink forgetfulness from the river Lethe in the underworld before they are reborn. In Hesiod, Lethe (Forgetfulness) is personified as a goddess, the daughter of Eris (Strife). In Ovid, lovers seeking to forget an unhappy love affair turn to the god Amor Lethaeus for help.

This book analyses different forms of forgetting and their relationship to textual, authorial, and political power in Greek and Latin literary texts, spanning from Homer to Roman imperial literature and including a wide variety of genres. All chapters share a common focus: the processes and instances of forgetting they examine were not completely successful. The types of forgetting discussed are multifaceted: they range from unconscious to conscious ignorance and the fading of unwanted memories, to more forceful forms such as overwriting and active suppression, as well as marked forgetting that paradoxically results in un-forgetting.

Zusammenfassung
Christoph Pieper ist University Lecturer für lateinische Literatur an der Universität Leiden. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Cicero und seine Rezeption und die Literatur des italienischen Renauissancehumanismus.
Verena Schulz ist Professorin für Klassische Philologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Latinistik an der KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der Antiken Rhetorik und römischen Historiographie.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Palingenesia
Inhalt: 317 S.
320 S.
ISBN-13: 9783515140201
ISBN-10: 3515140204
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 400014020
Einband: Gebunden
Redaktion: Pieper, Christoph
Schulz, Verena
Herausgeber: Christoph Pieper/Verena Schulz
Hersteller: Steiner Franz Verlag
Steiner, Franz, Verlag GmbH
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, Maybachstr. 8, D-70469 Stuttgart, service@steiner-verlag.de
Maße: 246 x 177 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Christoph Pieper (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2025
Gewicht: 0,682 kg
Artikel-ID: 134268460