Archaeologies of the Greek Past - Landscape, Monuments, and Memories

This 2002 book explores social memory in the ancient Greek world using the evidence of landscapes and monuments.

List of contents

1. Archaeologies of memory; 2. Old Greece within the Empire; 3. Cretan inventions; 4. Being Messenian; 5. Three short stories about Greek memory.

About the author

Susan E. Alcock is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Graecia Capta (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Summary

Social memory is a powerful political and emotional force, although recovering the shared memories of past societies is notoriously difficult. Employing three case studies from the history of ancient Greece, this 2002 book explores how the evidence of landscape and monuments can reveal commemorative practices and collective amnesias in such societies.

Product details

• Authors: Susan E. Alcock
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521813556
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81355-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 654 g
• Series: W.B. Stanford Memorial Lecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)