Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities : Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome

by: Bruno, N.

Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities
Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome
Edited by: Nicoletta Bruno

About this book
This book examines the narratives of early cultural history in ancient Greece and Rome, spanning from a macrocosmic outlook to a microcosmic exploration of individual stories, familial dynamics, and societal contexts. The collection investigates the concepts of archaeologies, origins, and antiquities through a multifaceted approach, considering literary, rhetorical, philosophical, historical, and epigraphic viewpoints. Each chapter delves into various aspects of cultural history, encompassing the influence of Homeric scholarship on Thucydides? ?Archaeology,? Plato?s concept of ?archaeologies?, the interpretation of the past through Hellenistic inscriptions, and the cultural histories of Sallust, Dicaearchus, and Varro. It also discusses the relationship between history, humanity, and the natural world in Lucretius and Seneca, Vergil?s accounts of early human history, the role of families in shaping cultural history, the origins of sexual violence in mythological stories, and the reinterpretation of Roman foundational myths in late antiquity. This volume invites readers to reflect on the ways in which the Greeks and Romans narrated their past, interpreted their origins, and constructed their collective memories.

Table of contents
Frontmatter

Preface

Nicoletta Bruno
Table of Contents

Introduction: To Unravel the Origins

Nicoletta Bruno
Cultural History and Homeric Scholarship in Thucydides? Archaeology

Tim Rood
Archäologie als Argument. Formen und Funktionen des Erzählens vom Altertum bei Platon

Michael Erler
(Re‐)Inscribing the Past, Interpreting the Present: The Archaiologiai of Hellenistic Inscriptions

Antonio Iacoviello
Sallust?s ?Archaeology? in Bellum Catilinae

Nicoletta Bruno
Dicaearchus and Varro: Cultural History Between Bio-logy and Genea-logy

Irene Leonardis
Mankind and Mother Earth: Lucretius, Seneca, and Universal History

Nicoletta Bruno
Vergil and Early Human History

Christopher Star
Il ruolo della famiglia nella tradizione dei testi e nella costruzione di una storia culturale antica

Sergio Brillante
The Fictional Origins of ?Heroic? Rape Imagery: Callisto, Arachne, and Pygmalion?s Statue in Ovid?s Metamorphoses

Stella Alekou
Undoing Origins, Challenging the Roots: The late antique Origo gentis Romanae

Marco Formisano
List of Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Passages

Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities : Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome

by: Bruno, N.

• ISBN-13: 9783119149839 / 978-3-11-914983-9
• ISBN-03: 3119149837 / 3-11-914983-7
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2025