Canonisation as Innovation

Miguel John Versluys, Ph.D. (2001), Leiden University, is Professor of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at that university. He has published widely on the cultural dynamics of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity, including Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World. Nemrud Dağ and Commagene under Antiochos I (CUP 2017)Damien Agut-Labordère, Ph.D. (2005), Centre national de la recherche scientifique, is Chargé de recherche in ArScAn research team based in Nanterre. He has published monographs and articles on Ancient Egyptian Literature and, in parallel, on Egypt during the Persian Achaemenid period. As specialist of the Demotic script, he is also involved in several archaeological missions in Egypt, in the Western Desert.Contributors are: Damien Agut-Labordère, Laurent Bricault, Hervé Gonzalez, Casper C. de Jonge, André Lardinois, William Marx, John K. Papadopoulos, Alessandra Rolle, Miguel John Versluys, Greg Woolf, Marie Young.

• ForewordPrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Introduction1 Canon Creation/Destruction and Cultural Formation: Authority, Reception, Canonicity, MarginalityJohn K. Papadopoulos2 Mémoire volontaire? Canonisation as Cultural Innovation in AntiquityMiguel John VersluysPart 2: Case Studies3 “The Tablets I Spoke about Are Good to Preserve until Far-off Days”: An Overview on the Creation and Evolution of Canons in Babylonia and Assyria from the Middle Babylonian Period until the End of Cuneiform SourcesMarie Young4 Inserting or Ruminating: How Demotic Became CanonicDamien Agut-Labordère5 Creation or Confirmation of the Canon? The Measures of Lycurgus and the Selection of Athenian Tragedy in AntiquityAndré Lardinois6 How Canonization Transformed Greek TragedyWilliam Marx7 Fixer une mémoire observations méthodologiques, philologiques et historiques sur la clotûre du canon de la bible Hébraïque In memoriam Philip R. Davies (1945-2018)Hervé Gonzalez8 Challenging the Canon of the Ten Attic Orators. From kanôn to CanonCasper C. de Jonge9 L’Arétalogie d’Isis : biographie d’un texte canoniqueLaurent Bricault10 Coming Home: Varro’s Antiquitates rerum divinarum and the Canonisation of Roman ReligionAlessandra RollePart 3: Conclusion11 What Becomes of the Uncanonical?Greg WoolfIndex