Memoria Romana

Memory in Roman Civilization

"Memoria Romana: Memory in Roman Civilization" is a project from 2009-2013 made by possible by the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. It has three principal and interrelated goals:

• to study, on a more comprehensive and integrated basis than previously, the role of memory in various aspects of Roman culture - literature (incl. historiography), art, architecture, religion, and social and political history
• to do so by employing and testing some perspectives, methods, and impulses from current work on Gedächtnisgeschichte, and by continuing to introduce this direction in historical scholarship, which has been centered largely in Germany and France, to scholars in other countries and, especially, more scholars of classical antiquity
• to provide financial support - and that is where most of the funds will go - to Ph.D. students and others (on an international basis) to carry out work in this area and to highlight the role of Gedächtnisgeschichte by means of scholarly exchange, including conferences.

Find out more at the project website.