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The concepts of memory and experience have stimulated interest in a wide range of recent cultural studies. In the history of scholarship on religion in Mediterranean antiquity, scholars have focused on the emotional dimension of both terms by employing the concepts of ´Christianity´ and its derivative, ´oriental religion´. Only recently analyses in this field started focusing on interaction and individual experience. Research initiatives at Palermo and Erfurt have taken up this lead and brought together a group of scholars testing such approaches for new perspectives on the history of religion in the Greek and Roman world. This volume reviews the cognitive and emotional dimensions of such experiences in their diverse local, social, and ritual contexts. Memory likewise opens a window onto the interaction of individual and society. Contributions address the individual processes of memorialization and remembrance. They analyse the collective evocation of memories and their shaping of individual memory.

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Gasparini, Valentino
Valentino Gasparini è attualmente Assistente di Ricerca presso il Max-Weber-Kolleg dell´Università di Erfurt, dove sta terminando la stesura della tesi di abilitazione come professore. La sua attività di ricerca, che predilige un approccio archeologico allo studio della storia delle religioni, si concentra sull´analisi della ricezione della religione egizia nel mondo greco-romano, sui culti di Pompei ed Ercolano, e sul paesaggio religioso dell´Africa antica.

Mastrocinque, Attilio
Attilio Mastrocinque, born in Venice 1952. 1981-1987: researcher of Ancient History at the University of Venice. 1987-1995: associated professor of Greek history at the University of Trento. Since 2001: full professor of Roman History at the University of Verona. 1992: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung fellowship. 1993: invited professor at the École Normale Supérieure. 2007: invited professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Research Fields: Hellenistic history; Roman history under monarchy and early Republic; religions in Republican Italy and oriental religions in the Roman Empire.

Rüpke, Jörg
Jörg Rüpke ist Professor für Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft an der Universität Erfurt. Er beschäftigt sich in seinen Arbeiten vornehmlich mit antiker Religionsgeschichte.

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