Contributions
All the papers presented in this volume take an in-depth look at these hidden memoryscapes as evident in archaeological remains and written sources. Whether based on accurate, distorted or lost memories, the subjects explored are: Imperial propaganda (Nielsen); the presence of dead kings within privately commissioned monuments (Heffernan); sacred memory and gods that cannot be written off simply because they are not fashionable any more (Westerfeld, Miano, Hunt); how storytelling amplified an agreed stock of cultural material (Dowden); how archives are created when new religious developments need to be defended (Bommas); religious identity (Harrisson); and the creation of a new genre of religious texts with the aid of well-remembered key words (Kuhlmann).
Cumulatively, the contributions presented here draw a picture of the various processes that were involved to allow memory to flourish in urban societies of the ancient world, to maintain the importance of memory and to put it on the map where religious beliefs were shaped.