This book presents twelve interdisciplinary studies on memory and how ancient Mediterranean cultures configured their pasts in art, texts, and religious practices. It examines how the past is controlled in various processes of selection, manipulation, and erasure - always with purposes specific to particular cultures and contexts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of contributors
- 1: Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith: Introduction
- Part I: Religious pasts and religious present
- 2: Simon Price: Memory and Ancient Greece
- 3: John North: Sappho in the Underground
- 4: Martin Goodman: Memory and its uses in Judaism and Christianity in the early Roman empire: the portrayal of Abraham
- 5: William van Andringa: Statues in the temples of Pompeii: Combinations of gods, local definition of cults, and the Memory of the City
- Part II: Defining religious identity
- 6: Beate Dignas: Rituals and the construction of identity in Attalid Pergamon
- 7: Richard Gordon: Memory and identity in the Graeco-Roman cults of Isis
- 8: John Scheid: Epigraphy and ritual: the vow of the legionary from Sulmo
- 9: Lucia Nixon: Building Memory: The role of sacred structures in Sphakia and Crete
- Part III : Commemorating and erasing the past
- 10: David Levene: You shall blot out the memory of Amalek : Roman historians on remembering to forget
- 11: Aude Busine: The discovery of old inscriptions in Antiquity and the legitimation of new cults
- 12: Peter Thonemann: Abercius of Hierapolis: Christianisation and social memory in Late Antique Asia Minor
- 13: R.R.R. Smith: Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias
