Archaeologies of the Greek past : landscape, monuments, and memories / Susan E. Alcock.

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Alcock, Susan E.

Title & Author:

Archaeologies of the Greek past : landscape, monuments, and memories / Susan E. Alcock.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Description:

xiv, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Series:

W.B. Stanford memorial lectures

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-212) and index.
1. Archaeologies of memory -- 2. Old Greece within the empire -- 3. Cretan inventions -- 4. Being Messenian -- 5. Three short stories about Greek memory.

Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

0521813557 (hardback)
9780521813556 (hardback)
0521890004 (paperback)
9780521890007 (paperback)

Subject:

Memory Social aspects Greece History To 1500.
Mémoire Aspect social Grèce Histoire Jusqu'à 1500.
15.70 history of Europe.
Antiquities
Memory Social aspects
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Het Verleden.
Sociale identiteit.
Verandering.
Beeldvorming.
Archeologische vondsten.
Klassieke oudheid.
Archaeology and history Greece.
Antiquités grecques.
Archéologie.
Mémoire collective.
Greece Antiquities.
Grèce Antiquités.
Greece
Griechenland
Grèce antique.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

W.B. Stanford memorial lectures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227619
Call No.: DF78 .A384 2002
Status: Available

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