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EBOOK Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191612428
EAN: A48DE297EB
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Stron: 368
Data wydania: 2012
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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World examines how religious and        historical memory was fashioned, distorted, preserved, or erased in ancient        societies - and what wide-ranging effects these actions had on the historical        process. The volume is interested in how memory intersects with and shapes religious        traditions and cultural identities. Its twelve case studies explore different        aspects of the memory layers that make up ancient history (social,        religious,cultural), and looks at how these layers are represented and refracted in        different contexts of the written and material remains of antiquity. The process has        its beginnings in the dim pasts of ancient communities, and continues in the later        Greek and Roman periods where our most articulate ancient evidencelies. It is a        process that continues, in a different way, in contemporary scholarship which draws        on selected evidence and a variety of contrasting representations.The three parts of        the book vary the lens through which the impact of religious and cultural memory can        be grasped. Part I looks at the commemoration of religious tradition in the context        of cultural interaction - Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian. Part II focuses on        how religious identities are defined and how homogenous-looking cultures engage in        elaborate selective dialogue with their own past. In Part III, contested versions of        the past are interpreted in studies of Roman historiographyand of religiously        motivated behaviour in late antique Asia Minor.This interdisciplinary book        highlights and celebrates the work of Simon Price, an important thinker and pioneer        in this kind of wider historical research in ancient cultures and religions.

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