Cultural memory and identity in ancient societies /
edited by Martin Bommas.
- xiv, 147 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Cultural memory and history in antiquity .
- Cultural memory and history in antiquity. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ancient Egyptian scene of 'pharaoh smiting his enemies' : an attempt to visualize cultural memory? / Silent voices? Cultural memory and the reading of inscribed epigram in classical Athens / Rhōmaizō ... ergo sum : becoming Roman in Varro's de Lingua Latina / Jewish memory and identity in the first century AD : Philo and Josephus on dreams / Pausanias' Egypt / Forgetting to remember in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt / Sculpture, text and recall : the monument to Viscountess Harriet Fitzharris / Maria Michela Luiselli -- Niall Livingstone -- Diana Spencer -- Juliette Grace Harrisson -- Martin Bommas -- Anna Lucille Boozer -- Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence and Roger White.
How did ancient societies remember and commemorate the past? And how was cultural identity, both individual and collective, formed and articulated? In recent years memory has become a central concept in historical studies, following the definition of the term 'Cultural Memory' by the Egyptologist Jan Assmann in 1994. Thinking about memory, as both an individual and a social phenomenon, has led to a new way of conceptualizing history and has drawn historians into debate with scholars in other disciplines such as literary studies, cultural theory and philosophy. The aim of this volume is to explore memory and identity in ancient societies.
In English; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with English translations.