Contents

Series Preface vii

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xii

Illustrations xiii

Foreword: Memory, History, Forgetting Christopher Smith xiv

Introduction: Sites of Memory and the Emergence of Urban Religion

Martin Bommas xxvi

Part 1 Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 1

1 Marduk's Return: Assyrian Imperial Propaganda, Babylonian

Cultural Memory, and the akitu Festival of 667 bc John P.

2 The Cult of the Pharaoh in New Kingdom Egypt - Cultural

Memory or State Ideology? Gabrielle Heffernan 33

3 Saints in the Caesareum: Remembering Temple-Conversion in

Late Antique Hermopolis Jennifer Westerfeld 59

Part 2 Ancient Rome 87

4 Moneta: Sacred Memory in Mid-Republican Rome Daniele Miano 89

5 Keeping the Memory Alive: The Physical Continuity of the Ficus

Ruminalis Ailsa Hunt 111

6 Memory Shift: Reinventing the Mythology, 100 bc-ad 100

Ken Dowden 129

7 Nights of Egeria: Juvenal's De Memoria Deorum David H. J. Larmour

8 The Iseum Campense as a Memory Site Martin Bommas 177

9 Isis in the Greco-Roman World: Cultural Memory and

Imagination Juliette Harrisson 213

10 Cultural Memory and Roman Identity in the Hymns of Prudentius

Peter Kuhlmann 237

Afterword Juliette Harrisson and Phoebe Roy 257

Index 261