La memoria culturale dei Romani

Maurizio Bettini

doi:10.5209/geri.92876

The Cultural Memory of Romans

Maurizio Bettini Università di Siena https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-7038

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.92876

Keywords: memory, culture, stories, places, mores

Abstract

This essay addresses the problem of the cultural memory of the Romans, relating to the first centuries of their history. The study is conducted in the perspective of the research inaugurated by Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Asmmann and lays the theoretical foundations of the research starting from an important passage of Cicero's De republica. In the second part it reviews the main 'memory tools' supporting the transmission of the cultural memory in Rome: such as the permanence of mores, the rites, places, stories and so on through which the most ancient Roman cultural memory was able to consolidate and be transmitted.

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Bettini M. (2024). The Cultural Memory of Romans. Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 42(2), 343-356. https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.92876

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