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of Honos. Seeing the porosity of the Italic religious experience, and understanding
the way in which ideas, myths, cults, and images moved, and were changed, how
culture remains dynamic and develops, will bring us much closer to the inter-
esting questions within the history of Roman Italy. Free movement of gods and
people, then, not the sterile quest for a clear-cut and static past.
The original idea for the workshop was that of DM, and he shared with EHB
the organisation and editing duties. Both are grateful to Brasenose College,
Oxford, where the workshop was held, for financial and logistical support. Nich-
olas Purcell provided valuable encouragement in the early stages, for which we
offer warm thanks. We are grateful to Ryan M. Horne, former director of the
Ancient World Mapping Centre and currently at the University of Pittsburgh, for
his assistance with the production of a map of Italy for this volume, and to Jerome
Mairat and Chris Howgego for their prompt assistance with images of coins from
the Heberden coin room at the Ashmolean Museum. D. M. did much of the final
editorial work during a Research Fellowship at the Max Weber Centre of the Uni-
versity of Erfurt, generously founded by the Alexander von Humboldt Founda-
tion. It has been a pleasure to work with our splendid contributors, who have been
both prompt and patient when needed; we hope the final product compensates for
the delays involved. We are especially grateful to John North, for attending and
concluding the workshop, and for his thoughtful introduction, which draws out
better than we could the central issues and prospects for future work opened up
by the various contributions.
Oxford and Erfurt
July 2019
Notes
1 On Dempster see Leighton and Castelino 1990 ; on Maffei and others Casini 1998 .
2 De Francesco 2013
3 Mouritsen 1998 : 23–37.
4 Dench 1995 .
5 Adams 2003 : 715.
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