Memory and urban religion in the ancient world. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Martin Bommas, Juliette Harrisson and Phoebe Roy.
• Editors: Bommas, Martin; Harrisson, Juliette; Roy, Phoebe
• Contents: Series Preface; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Foreword: Memory, History, Forgetting Christopher Smith; Introduction: Sites of Memory and the Emergence of Urban Religion Martin Bommas; Part 1 Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt; 1 Marduk's Return: Assyrian Imperial Propaganda, Babylonian Cultural Memory, and the akītu Festival of 667 bc John P. Nielsen; 2 The Cult of the Pharaoh in New Kingdom Egypt -- Cultural Memory or State Ideology? Gabrielle Heffernan; 3 Saints in the Caesareum: Remembering Temple-Conversion in Late Antique Hermopolis Jennifer Westerfeld. Part 2 Ancient Rome4 Moneta: Sacred Memory in Mid-Republican Rome Daniele Miano; 5 Keeping the Memory Alive: The Physical Continuity of the Ficus Ruminalis Ailsa Hunt; 6 Memory Shift: Reinventing the Mythology, 100 bc-ad 100 Ken Dowden; 7 Nights of Egeria: Juvenal's De Memoria Deorum David H. J. Larmour; 8 The Iseum Campense as a Memory Site Martin Bommas; 9 Isis in the Greco-Roman World: Cultural Memory and Imagination Juliette Harrisson; 10 Cultural Memory and Roman Identity in the Hymns of Prudentius Peter Kuhlmann; Afterword Juliette Harrisson and Phoebe Roy; Index.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 292.07; Greece -- Religious life and customs; Religion; Rome -- Religious life and customs; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism; RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology; Rome -- Religious life and customs; Greece -- Religious life and customs; Greece; Rome (Empire); Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441130143; 1441130144; 1441187588; 9781441187581
• Related ISBNs: 9781441116796; 1441116796
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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