Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity

Beate 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).

• List of IllustrationsGeneral Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction1. Power and Politics2. Time and Space3. Media and Technology4. Knowledge: Science and Education5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History6. High Culture and Popular Culture7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday8. Remembering and ForgettingNotesBibliographyContributorsIndex