Memory in Antiquity

Abstract

This article provides a thematic summary of two workshops funded through the project Memory in Antiquity, hosted by Leiden University and the University of Birmingham. This project capitalises on the broad interest in memory in the humanities and social sciences and provides a forum for researchers to reflect on the processes of remembering and forgetting, how these are identifiable in the ancient sources, and what role they play in the construction of ideas about the past, with a particular focus on ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East.