Cultural memory and identity in ancient societies:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Continuum 2011
Series:Cultural memory and history in antiquity
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description: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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 147 p.)
ISBN:1441187472
9781441187475
9781441120502
1441120505

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