Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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This title deals with the role of memory in shaping religion in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. This volume brings together scholars and researchers working on memory and religion in ancient urban environments. Chapters explore topics relating to religious traditions and memory, and the multifunctional roles of architectural and geographical sites, mythical figures and events, literary works and artefacts. Pagan religions were often less static and more open to new influences than previously understood. One of the factors that shape religion is how fundamental elements are remembered as valuable and therefore preservable for future generations. Memory, therefore, plays a pivotal role when - as seen in ancient Rome during late antiquity - a shift of religions takes place within communities. The significance of memory in ancient societies and how it was promoted, prompted, contested and even destroyed is discussed in detail.This volume, the first of its kind, will not only address the main cultures of the ancient world - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome - but also look at urban religious culture and funerary belief, and how concepts of ethnic religion were adapted in new religious environments.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-11-08
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:646 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Memory and History in Antiquity
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN:9781441116796

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Juliette Harrisson is an external lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK and an associate lecturer with the Open University, UK. Her chief research interest lies in ancient myth and religion in the Roman Empire, studied through the theoretical framework of cultural memory. Phoebe Roy is a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. Elena Theodorakopolous is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Martin Bommas is senior lecturer in Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was a research associate of Professor Jan Assmann at the University of Heidelberg until 2000, and has published five monographs on ancient Egyptian rituals, religious texts, and memory.

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Introduction; 1. Marduk's Return: Assyrian Imperial Propaganda and Mesopotamian Cultural Memory - Nielsen; 2. The Cult of the Ruler in Ancient Egypt - Heffernan; 3. Saints in the Caesareum: Remembering Temple Conversion in Late Antique Egypt - Westerfeld; 4. Memory Shift: Reinventing the Mythology, 100BC to AD 100 - Dowden; 5. Isis in the Greco-Roman World: Cultural Memory and Imagination - Harrisson; 6. Keeping the Memory Alive: The Physical Continuity of the Ficus Ruminalis - Hunt; 7. Sacred Memory in Republican Rome - Miano; 8. The Iseum Campense as a 'lieu de memoire' - Bommas; 9. Nights of Egeria: Juvenal's Search for Rome - Larmour; 10. Cultural Memory and Identity in the Hymns of Prudentius - Kuhlmann; Afterword; Select Bibliography; Index.