Die Römische Republik als Kultur des Erinnerns, Deutens und Vergessens

Abstract

This paper addresses the cultural memory of the Roman Republic through a cross-cultural perspective/approach. It contrasts the mechanisms of remembering within the Roman republican society and in Athens in the 5th century BC starting with some general remarks to the
present discussion of different types of memory. A main point of the research is the relationship between remembering and forgetting and its  importance/consequences for the construction
of identity. Another question is the possibility of a distinct culture and memory of the populus in contrast to the nobility and their possible places/media of remembrance, in myth and festivity.