WRITING, MEMORY AND DISCOURSE. THE CASE OF RES GESTAE DIVI AUGUSTI

Abstract

This article contains an approximation to writing beginning with the elaboration of memory and the corresponding production of a literary text that has the clear intention of influencing in the present and future evaluation of the political work written by the author. The specific case study is the inscription Res Gestae, written by the Roman emperor Augustus two thousand years ago. The main idea sets forth that the interest in the inscription lies in it being the last elaboration of the memory of the events therein consigned and not in the criteria of truth-falsehood which is how this writing has usually been approached.