Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521890007)

Social or collective memory has recently become a much debated subject 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.

Author: Susan E. Alcock
ISBN-10: 0521890004
ISBN-13: 9780521890007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2002
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.67h x 7.07w x 0.46d