This book focuses on a simple dynamic: the taking in hand of a heritage, the variety of changes induced within it, and the handing on of that legacy to new generations.

An illumination of memory-the defining aspect of Roman civilization

The papers collected in the present volume were originally delivered at the conference "Divine Men and Women in the History and Society of Late Hellenism", organised at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków on the 24th-25th June, 2010.

This book examines the importance of the past, both real and imagined, in constructing contemporary culture in the period AD 500-1000.