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A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350408579)
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xA Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.
This volume, A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity, explores peace in the period from 800 BC to 500 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Memory set, this volume presents essays on memory and: power and politics; time and space; media and technology; science and education; philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture; rituals, faith, practices and the everyday; and remembering and forgetting. A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on memory in the classical era.Author: Beate Dignas
ISBN-10: 1350408573
ISBN-13: 9781350408579
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2024
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.65w x 1.00d
By Beate Dignas
xBeate Dignas is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Fellow and Tutor of Ancient History at Somerville College. Her research focuses on Greek Religion and the History of Asia Minor. She is the author of Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2002) and Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity (2007). She has also edited the collective volumes Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (2012) and Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World (2018).
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