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Memory and urban religion in the ancient world

BOMMAS Martin - HARRISSON Juliette - ROY Phoebe (editors)

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Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, 2012. First edition. In-8, xxxviii & 271 pages. Original softcover, a fine copy. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: 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 akItu Festival of 668 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 Rome. 4. Moneta: Sacred Memory in 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. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Religion & Magic, Mesopotamia, Rome, Greece & Aegean.

Language: English.

Price: € 40.00  other currencies

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