Historical and religious memory in the ancient world, edited by Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith

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The instance Historical and religious memory in the ancient world, edited by Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.

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Historical and religious memory in the ancient world, edited by Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith

Statement of responsibility

edited by Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith

Instantiates

• Historical and religious memory in the ancient world

Publication

• Oxford | New York, Oxford University Press, 2012

Note

"The book grew from papers given at 'A day of honour of Simon Price' at the Ioannou Centre of Classical and Byzantine Studies in Oxford on 22 September 2008 on the occasion of Simon's retirement ..." -- preface

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xi]-xv) and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• 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
• Part II: Defining religious identity.
• Rituals and the construction of identity in Attalid Pergamon
• Beate Dignas
• Memory and authority in the magical papyri
• Preface
• 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
• Part III: Commemorating and erasing the past.
• "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
• Simon Price
• Abercius of Hierapolis : Christianization and social memory in late antique Asia Minor
• Peter Thonemann
• Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias
• R.R.R. Smith
• Publications of Simon Price
• Introduction
• Beate Dignas and R.R.R. Smith
• Part I: Religious pasts and religious present.
• Memory and ancient Greece
• Simon Price

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17317973

Dimensions

22 cm.

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xix, 338 p.

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9780199572069

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2011277595

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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ill., maps, plans

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b2631806