Memory in the Commentarii Rerum Gestarum

Bellum Gallicum by Gaius Julius Caesar

Authors

  • Paulo Sérgio Margarido Ferreira University of Coimbra, Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/0870-4112_3-9_2

Keywords:

commentarius, memory, war, rhetoric, power

Abstract

Based on modern theory about "cultural memory", "collective memory" and "communicative memory", and on the rhetorical importance of memory, this reflection seeks, in the light of the cotext, to define what Caesar understands, in Bellum Gallicum, by hominum memoria, patrum nostrorum memoria and nostra etiam memoria: the first concerns origins, practices and rituals, the second is close to communicative memory and the third has to do with the domain of memory as a criterion for defining the barbarian and the civilised, the more and the less powerful militarily, symbolically and spatially, and, in the end, the identity of each people.

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Published

2023-12-20

Issue

No. 9 (2023): Conflict and Conflictualities

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