Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Panoussi, Vassiliki.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; v.190

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual in literature.

Memory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome.The issue of identity has recently dominated the arena of public discourse with renewed urgency, and in antiquity as in the current day, identities were created through an amalgamation of multivalent views and values.

Contents:

Intro

Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction

Bibliography

Part I: Ritual, Poetics, and the Past: Greece

Into the Woods: Reading the Iliad with Boeotian Cult

Epinician Rituals in Pindar's Fourth and Fifth Olympians: Shaping and Preserving Identities in Song

Repeat, Remember: Ritual and Literature (Horace

Sappho, Alcaeus

Homer, Sophocles, Epicurus, Callimachus, Vergil)

1 Memory and Types of Time

2 Accumulation and Kinds of Attention

Ritual, Meter, and Cultural Memories of Megatheism: A New Case for Sarapis as the God of Hyssaldomos' Verse-Inscription from Mylasa

1 The Problem of the Anax's Identity

2 Sarapian Rituals in Hyssaldomos' Poem

2.1 Sacral Manumission

2.2 Light in Darkness

2.3 Mysteries

3 The Metrical Case for Sarapis

4 Sarapis' Cultural Identity in Caria

5 Conclusions

Part II: Ritual, Poetics, and the Past: Rome

Georgics 4: Vergil on the Rites of Poetry and Philosophy at the Dawn of a New Era

1 Introduction: Vergil's Reclaim of Piety and its Practice from the Philosophers

2 Aristaeus and Orpheus as Culture Heroes

3 Aristaeus/Aristeas and the Search for Religious Authority

4 Concluding Remarks: Poetry vs Philosophy

Horace's Ritual Song in Augustan Rome: The Sacred Poet as an alter princeps

1 Prologue

2 Carm. 3.30: The Poem as a Rite, the Poet as a Priest

3 Poetry, Ritual, and the Idea of the Sacred Poet

4 The Prominent Role of the Divinus Vates: Relevant Evidence in Horace's Late Works

5 Epilogue

Divining Identity in Seneca's Oedipus

Part III: Performing Identity.

Call the Witnesses: Athenian Citizenship Practice at the Crossroads of Memory, Ritual, and Identity

1 Introduction

2 Athenian Citizenship: Descent and Ritual

3 Collective Memory and Identity

4 Remembering and Forgetting: Legal Implications

5 Citizen Migration: The Extent of the Problem

6 Memory, Identity, and Migration

Embodied Memory in the Panathenaia

1 The Procession: Collective Pomp

2 The Tyrannicide: Procession in Crisis

3 The Tyrannicides: Physical Commemoration

4 Embodiment in the Procession

5 Embodied Memory

Ritual Against Memory: Managing the Ancestors in Ancient Rome

1 Death and the Ancestors

2 What Did Romans Believe about the Ancestors?

3 Memory between Politics and Religion

4 Family Dynamics with the Ancestors

5 Managing the Ancestors

6 Last Words

Part IV: Trauma and Memory

Aeneas' tropaeum: Collective Trauma and Commemoration in Vergil's Aeneid

Broken Hospitality and Traumatic Memory in the Funerals of Vergil's Pallas and Valerius Flaccus' Cyzicus

2 Hospitality and Trauma: The Deaths of Pallas and Turnus

3 Memory and Ritual: The Funeral of Pallas

4 Pallas, Dido, Ritual, and Memory: Layers of Trauma

5 Pallas and Dido as Intertextual Memories in Valerius' Cyzicus Episode

6 Hospitality and Trauma in the Battle and Lament in Valerius' Cyzicus Episode

7 Mopsus' Purification Ritual: Becoming immemor

8 Conclusion

Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Prudentius, Peristephanon and Paulinus of Nola, Natalicia

1 Memory in the Tomb

2 Undying fama

3 Places of Memory

4 Ecphrasis and Enargeia

5 Identity and Community

6 Christian and non-Christian Identities

Part V: Women, Ritual and Memory.

Remembering Female Names: Crisis, Ritual, and Collective Identity Formation in Ancient Greek Epic Poetry

1 Persephone's Companions

2 Thetis and the Nereids

3 Sanctuary Space

4 Conclusion

Ritual Lament, Memory, and Identity in Euripides' Trojan Trilogy

Memory, Ritual, and the Politics of Closure in Tacitus, Ann. 3.76

Part VI: Places

Treasuries, Identity, and Politics

Ancient Greek Construction Rituals, Tradition, and the Articulation of Communal Identities

1 Selinunte and Early Identity Formation

2 Constructing Ritual Narratives

3 From Ritual Narrative to Social Memory

4 Selinous' Ritual Identity in Glocal Discourse

Ritual, Memory, and Identity: The Case of Theoriae

1 Commemoration at Sanctuaries

2 Two Laodicean Theoriae

3 A Theoria from Perinthus

4 Remembering Theoroi in Their Cities

Pomponius Mela's Hercules: Preserving Phoenician Ritual Memory and Identity

2 Sacred Sites in Mela

3 Hercules in Mela

4 Columns of Hercules

5 The Myth of Hercules

6 Hercules and Settlement

7 Hercules and Melqart

List of Contributors

Editors

Contributors

Index Rerum

Index Locorum.

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ISBN:

3-11-119745-X

9783111197456

OCLC:

1553699340