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Cultural memory and identity in ancient societies / edited by Martin Bommas.

Contributor(s): Bommas, MartinMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Cultural memory and history in antiquityPublisher: London ; New York : Continuum, 2011Description: xiv, 147 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781441120502; 1441120505Subject(s): Civilization, Ancient | Collective memory | Identity (Psychology) | Civilization, Ancient | Collective memory | Identity (Psychology) | Kollektives Gedächtnis | Altertum | Identität | Kollektives Gedächtnis | Altertum | Kollektives GedächtnisGenre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung.DDC classification: 306.093 LOC classification: CB311 | .C95 2011Other classification: 6,12 Online resources: Table of contents | Table of contents | Publisher description
Contents:
The ancient Egyptian scene of 'pharaoh smiting his enemies' : an attempt to visualize cultural memory? / Maria Michela Luiselli -- Silent voices? Cultural memory and the reading of inscribed epigram in classical Athens / Niall Livingstone -- Rhōmaizō ... ergo sum : becoming Roman in Varro's de Lingua Latina / Diana Spencer -- Jewish memory and identity in the first century AD : Philo and Josephus on dreams / Juliette Grace Harrisson -- Pausanias' Egypt / Martin Bommas -- Forgetting to remember in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt / Anna Lucille Boozer -- Sculpture, text and recall : the monument to Viscountess Harriet Fitzharris / Mary Harlow, Ray Laurence and Roger White.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The ancient Egyptian scene of 'pharaoh smiting his enemies' : an attempt to visualize cultural memory? / Maria Michela Luiselli -- Silent voices? Cultural memory and the reading of inscribed epigram in classical Athens / Niall Livingstone -- Rhōmaizō ... ergo sum : becoming Roman in Varro's de Lingua Latina / Diana Spencer -- Jewish memory and identity in the first century AD : Philo and Josephus on dreams / Juliette Grace Harrisson -- Pausanias' Egypt / Martin Bommas -- Forgetting to remember in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt / Anna Lucille Boozer -- Sculpture, text and recall : the monument to Viscountess Harriet Fitzharris / 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.