Historical and religious memory in the ancient world/
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2012
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction, Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith
- Part I: Religious Pasts and religious present. 2. Memory and Ancient Greece, Simon Price - 3. Sappho Underground, J.A. North - 4. Memory and its uses in Judaism and Christianity in the early Roman empire: the portrayal of Abraham, Martin Goodman - 5. Statues in the temples of Pompeii: Combinations of gods, local definition of cults, and the Memory of the City, William van Andringa
- Part II: Defining religious identity. 6. Rituals and the construction of identity in Attalid Pergamon, Beate Dignas - 7. Memory and authority in the magical papyri, Richard Gordon - 8. Epigraphy and ritual: the vow of the legionary from Sulmo, John Scheid - 9. Building Memory: The role of sacred structures in Sphakia and Crete, Lucia Nixon
- Part III: Commemorating and erasing the past. 10. ʹ You shall blot out the memory of Amalekʹ : Roman historians on remembering to forget, D.S. Levene - 11. The discovery of inscriptions and the legitimation of new cults, Aude Busine - 12. Abercius of Hierapolis: Christianisation and social memory in Late Antique Asia Minor, Peter Thonemann - 13. Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias, R.R.R. Smith