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Author:   Dr Martin Bommas ,  Dr Juliette Harrisson (Newman University, UK) ,  Phoebe Roy
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:   NIPPOD
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781472530530

ISBN 10:   1472530535
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: Memory, History, Forgetting - Smith Introduction: Sites of Memory and the Emergence of Urban Religion - Bommas 1. Marduk's Return: Assyrian Imperial Propaganda, Babylonian Cultural Memory and the akItu Festival of 668 BC - Nielsen 2. The Cult of the Pharaoh in New Kingdom Egypt: Cultural Memory or State Ideology? - Heffernan 3. Saints in the Caesareum: Remembering Temple Conversion in Late Antique Egypt - Westerfeld 4. Sacred Memory in Republican Rome - Miano 5. Keeping the Memory Alive: The Physical Continuity of the Ficus Ruminalis - Hunt 6. Memory Shift: Reinventing the Mythology, 100 BC - AD 100 - Dowden 7. Nights of Egeria: Juvenal's De Memoria Deorum - Larmour 8. The Iseum Campense as a Memory Site - Bommas 9. Isis in the Greco-Roman World: Cultural Memory and Imagination - Harrisson 10. Cultural Memory and Roman Identity in the Hymns of Prudentius - Kuhlmann Afterword - Harrisson and Roy Index

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Martin Bommas is senior lecturer in Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, UK. He was a research associate of Professor Jan Assmann at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, until 2000, and has published five monographs on ancient Egyptian rituals, religious texts, and memory. Juliette Harrisson is an external lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK and an associate lecturer with the Open University, UK. Her chief research interest lies in ancient myth and religion in the Roman Empire, studied through the theoretical framework of cultural memory.

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