Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman WorldA&C Black, 29.07.2004 - 157 Seiten The ten studies in this book explore the phenomenon of public memory in societies of the Graeco-Roman period. Mendels begins with a concise discussion of the historical canon that emerged in Late Antiquity and brought with it the (distorted) memory of ancient history in Western culture. The following nine chapters each focus on a different source of collective memory in order to demonstrate the patchy and incomplete associations ancient societies had with their past, including discussions of Plato's Politeia, a "site of memory" of the early church, and the dichotomy existing between the reality of the land of Israel in the Second Temple period and memories of it. Throughout the book, Mendels shows that since the societies of Antiquity had associations with only bits and pieces of their past, these associations could be slippery and problematic, constantly changing, multiplying and submerging. Memories, true and false, oral and inscribed, provide good evidence for this fluidity. |
Inhalt
How was our Collective Memory of Ancient History | 1 |
Fragmented Historical Memories | 30 |
The Alternative Collective Memory and | 48 |
Platos Politeia | 60 |
Mechanisms of Communication and the Preservation | 69 |
An Inscribed Fragmented Memory from Palestine | 81 |
Memory | 89 |
Eusebius | 103 |
A Fragmented Memory in Judaism of | 130 |
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Memory in Jewish, Pagan and Christian Societies of the Graeco-Roman World Doron Mendels Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2004 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aeschylus Alon's Ammianus ancient history Antiochus Athenian Athens Augustus battle became biographies C. H. Beck Cambridge University Press Cassius Dio century BCE Chapter Christian memory Church Fathers Clarendon Press collective memory commemoration communication created cultural Darius Diodorus Diodorus Siculus disappeared Ecclesiastical History Egypt Egyptian emperors Ephorus Eusebius fact formulated fourth century fragments Greece Greek Hasmonean Hebrew Hecataeus Hecataeus of Abdera Hellenism Hellenistic Herodotus historiography important inscribed Jewish Jews Josephus Judaism Katz and Popescu king kingship Land of Israel late antiquity laws literary London Maccabees Marathon memories concerning Mendels mention modern mythological nation pagan Palestine past Pausanias Persians Plato Plutarch polemics Politeia political Polybius Posidonius preserved Princeton Ptolemies public sphere recycling Republic Res Gestae Roman Empire Rome Salamis Second Temple Second Temple period Seleucids sites of memory social society sources Sparta stories Tacitus third century Thucydides Tradition writing wrote