Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome

Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome Edited by: Vassiliki Panoussi and William HuttonAbout this book 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. Individual identities were inextricably linked to collective identifications and informed by shared memories and experiences; these in turn shaped the narratives and practices that perpetuated connections within the community. Ritual played a foundational role in this process, as a deeply felt, iterative action that brought members of a community together to form powerful memories through which they negotiated their relationships with one another and with society at large. With contributions on ancient Greek and Roman literature, politics, religion, and material culture, and with a chronological scope ranging from archaic Greece to early Christendom, this volume examines the synergy of memory, ritual, and identity from multiple disciplinary perspectives and provides both an illustration of the variety of configurations that synergy took in Greco-Roman antiquity and how they persisted and evolved over time.Author / Editor information Vassiliki Panoussi and William Hutton, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg VA, USA.Table of contents Frontmatter I Acknowledgments Contents VII Abbreviations List of Figures XIII Introduction 1 Vassiliki Panoussi and William Hutton Part I Ritual, Poetics, and the Past: Greece Into the Woods: Reading the Iliad with Boeotian Cult 17 Richard P. Martin Epinician Rituals in Pindar’s Fourth and Fifth Olympians: Shaping and Preserving Identities in Song 35 Lucia Athanassaki Repeat, Remember: Ritual and Literature (Horace; Sappho, Alcaeus; Homer, Sophocles, Epicurus, Callimachus, Vergil) 47 G.O. Hutchinson Ritual, Meter, and Cultural Memories of Megatheism: A New Case for Sarapis as the God of Hyssaldomos’ Verse-Inscription from Mylasa 71 Brett Evans 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 97 Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides Horace’s Ritual Song in Augustan Rome: The Sacred Poet as an alter princeps 119 Chrysanthe Tsitsiou-Chelidoni Divining Identity in Seneca’s Oedipus 139 Stavros Frangoulidis Part III Performing Identity Call the Witnesses: Athenian Citizenship Practice at the Crossroads of Memory, Ritual, and Identity 153 Danielle L. Kellogg Embodied Memory in the Panathenaia 169 Jessica Paga Ritual Against Memory: Managing the Ancestors in Ancient Rome 195 Greg Woolf Part IV Trauma and Memory Aeneas’ tropaeum: Collective Trauma and Commemoration in Vergil’s Aeneid 213 Vassiliki Panoussi Broken Hospitality and Traumatic Memory in the Funerals of Vergil’s Pallas and Valerius Flaccus’ Cyzicus 237 Helen Lovatt Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Prudentius, Peristephanon and Paulinus of Nola, Natalicia 271 Philip Hardie Part V Women, Ritual and Memory Remembering Female Names: Crisis, Ritual, and Collective Identity Formation in Ancient Greek Epic Poetry 289 Andromache Karanika Ritual Lament, Memory, and Identity in Euripides’ Trojan Trilogy 307 Ioanna Karamanou Memory, Ritual, and the Politics of Closure in Tacitus, Ann. 3.76 323 Sophia Papaioannou Part VI Places Treasuries, Identity, and Politics 337 Judith M. Barringer Ancient Greek Construction Rituals, Tradition, and the Articulation of Communal Identities 355 Andrew Farinholt Ward Ritual, Memory, and Identity: The Case of Theoriae 385 Ewen L. Bowie Pomponius Mela’s Hercules: Preserving Phoenician Ritual Memory and Identity 405 Georgia L. Irby List of Contributors 423 Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos Index Rerum Index Locorum ISSN 1868-4785 / Trends in Classics 190