PREFACE-- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS-- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS-- 1. Introduction-- PART I: RELIGIOUS PASTS AND RELIGIOUS PRESENT-- 2. Memory and Ancient Greece-- 3. Sappho in the Underground-- 4. Memory and its uses in Judaism and Christianity in the early Roman empire: the portrayal of Abraham-- 5. Statues in the temples of Pompeii: Combinations of gods, local definition of cults, and the Memory of the City-- PART II: DEFINING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY-- 6. Rituals and the construction of identity in Attalid Pergamon-- 7. Memory and identity in the Graeco-Roman cults of Isis-- 8. Epigraphy and ritual: the vow of the legionary from Sulmo-- 9. Building Memory: The role of sacred structures in Sphakia and Crete-- PART III : COMMEMORATING AND ERASING THE PAST-- 10. You shall blot out the memory of Amalek : Roman historians on remembering to forget-- 11. The discovery of old inscriptions in Antiquity and the legitimation of new cults-- 12. Abercius of Hierapolis: Christianisation and social memory in Late Antique Asia Minor-- 13. Defacing the gods at Aphrodisias.