Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World Bommas 9781472530530 1441187588

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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 Rome

4 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

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