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Archaeologies of the Greek Past : Landscape, Monuments, and Memories (W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures)
Archaeologies of the Greek Past Landscape Monuments and Memories - W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures Author:Susan E. Alcock 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... more » 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.« less