Historical and religious memory in the ancient world / edited by Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith.
Contributor(s): Dignas, Beate
| Smith, R. R. R | Price, S. R. F
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TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: xix, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199572069; 0199572062Other title: Historical & religious memory in the ancient worldSubject(s): Collective memory -- History -- To 1500 | Memory -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500 | Religion and social status -- History -- To 1500 | Group identity -- History -- To 1500 | Historiography -- History -- To 1500 | Price, S. R. FBibliography, Etc. Note: Publications of Simon Price : pages [xi]-xv.; Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL65 .M43 H57 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903197289 |
"The book grew from papers given at 'A day in honour of Simon Price' at the Ioannou Centre of Classical Byzantine Studies in Oxford on 22 September 2008...."--Preface.
Publications of Simon Price : pages [xi]-xv.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Memory and ancient Greece / Simonb 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.