Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World

by: Bommas, M. Harrisson, J. Roy, R.

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Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World (Cultural Memory and History in Antiquity)
Authors:Martin Bommas, Juliette Harrisson, Phoebe Roy

Contents:
Preface: Memory, History, Forgetting - SmithIntroduction: Sites of Memory and the Emergence of Urban Religion - Bommas1. Marduk's Return: Assyrian Imperial Propaganda, Babylonian Cultural Memory and the akItu Festival of 668 BC - Nielsen2. The Cult of the Pharaoh in New Kingdom Egypt: Cultural Memory or State Ideology? - Heffernan3. Saints in the Caesareum: Remembering Temple Conversion in Late Antique Egypt - Westerfeld4. Sacred Memory in Republican Rome - Miano5. Keeping the Memory Alive: The Physical Continuity of the Ficus Ruminalis - Hunt6. Memory Shift: Reinventing the Mythology, 100 BC - AD 100 - Dowden7. Nights of Egeria: Juvenal's De Memoria Deorum - Larmour8. The Iseum Campense as a Memory Site - Bommas9. Isis in the Greco-Roman World: Cultural Memory and Imagination - Harrisson10. Cultural Memory and Roman Identity in the Hymns of Prudentius - KuhlmannAfterword - Harrisson and RoyIndex

Series:
Cultural memory and history in antiquity

xxxviii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World

by: Bommas, M. Harrisson, J. Roy, R.

• ISBN-13: 9781472530530 / 978-1-4725-3053-0
• ISBN-03: 1472530535 / 1-4725-3053-5
• Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2014

Price: 25,80 EURO

1 copy in stock