MUSIC AND MEMORY IN THE ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS

CURTIS Lauren, WEISS Naomi

ISBN 10: 1108831664 / ISBN 13: 9781108831666

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108831666, 2022

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1st edn. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. xvi + 363, illus with coloured and b&w photos (no inscriptions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MUSIC AND MEMORY IN THE ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108831666
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108831664
• ISBN 13: 9781108831666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

In Greek mythology, the Muses are Memory's daughters. Their genealogy suggests a deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, but how was this connection understood and experienced by ancient authors, artists, performers, and audiences? How is music remembered and how does it memorialize in a world before recording technology, where sound accumulated differently than it does today? This volume explores music's role in the discourses of cultural memory, communication, and commemoration in ancient Greek and Roman societies. It reveals the many and varied ways in which musical memory formed a fundamental part of social, cultural, ritual, and political life in ancient Greek- and Latin-speaking communities, from classical Athens to Ptolemaic Alexandria and ancient Rome. Drawing on the contributors' interdisciplinary expertise in art history, philology, performance studies, history, and ethnomusicology, eleven original chapters and the editors' Introduction offer new approaches for the study of Graeco-Roman music and musical culture.

About the Authors

Lauren Curtis is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Bard College. She is the author of Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry (2017) and is currently working on a commentary on Ovid, Tristia 3 for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.

Naomi Weiss is the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. She is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater (2018) and co-editor of Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models (2019).