Historical and religious memory in the ancient world /
"Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World examines how religious and historical memory was fashioned, distorted, preserved, or erased in ancient societies - and what wide-ranging effects these actions had on the historical process. The volume is interested in how memory intersects w...
| Други автори: | Dignas, Beate, 1968-, Smith, R. R. R., Price, S. R. F. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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Съдържание:
- Memory and ancient Greece / Simon Price
- Sappho underground / J.A. North
- Memory and its uses in Judaism and Christianity in the early Roman Empire : the portrayal of Abraham / Martin Goodman
- Statues in the temples of Pompeii : combinations of gods, local definition of cults, and the memory of the city / William Van Andringa
- Rituals and the construction of identity in Attalid Pergamon / Beate Dignas
- Memory and authority in the magical papyri / Richard Gordon
- Epigraphy and ritual : the vow of a legionary from Sulmo / John Scheid
- Building memory : the role of sacred structures in Sphakia and Crete / Lucia Nixon
- "You shall blot out the memory of Amalek" : Roman historians on remembering to forget / D.S. Levene
- The discovery of inscriptions and the legitimation of new cults / Aude Busine
- Abercius of Hierapolis : Christianization and social memory in late antique Asia Minor / Peter Thonemann
- Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias / R.R.R. Smith.