Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and MemoriesSocial, or collective, memory has recently become a much debated subject, both in academic disciplines and in the popular media. People in antiquity surely possessed similar shared memories, but - except for the limited accounts of elite authors--they are notoriously difficult to recover. This book explores how material culture, in particular the evidence of landscape and of monuments, can reveal commemorative practices and collective amnesias in past societies. Three case studies are considered: Greece in the early Roman period, Hellenistic and Roman Crete, and Messenia from Archaic to Hellenistic times. |
Contents
Archaeologies of memory | 1 |
Old Greece within the empire | 36 |
Cretan inventions | 99 |
Being Messenian | 132 |
Three short stories about Greek memory | 176 |
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Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories Susan E. Alcock No preview available - 2002 |
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Achaia Acropolis activity Alcock altar ancient antique Aphrodite archaeological Archaic and Classical argued Artemis Athenian Agora Athens Augustan Augustus Ayia Triada Bronze Age Cambridge Cartledge century BC Chaniotis civic commemorative context Cretan Crete cultural dominant early imperial early Roman Eleutheria elite emperor empire Eteocretan evidence example excavations exiles Gortyn Greek Halbwachs Hambledon Hill Hellenic helots heroes Hierapytna Hope Simpson identity images inscriptions island Ithome Knossos Kopanaki Korynthos Lakonia land landscape Late Minoan least London Luraghi Marathon memory communities Mesara Messene Messenian Minos monuments Nabonidus Nichoria nostalgia numbers particular past patterns Pausanias perioikic Persian Wars Phaistos places Plataea Plutarch political present province Pylos recent regional remember ritual Roman Crete Roman Greece Rome Salamis sanctuary Sanders second century settlement shrine social memory society space Spartan Spawforth status Stoa structure survey temple Tholos Thompson and Wycherley Thucydides tion tomb cult traditions versions Volimidia votives Wycherley 1972