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Title

Strategies of remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) / edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N. I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt.

Publication

• Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Kuin, Inger N. I.
• Moser, Muriel
• Weidgenannt, David
• Dijkstra, Tamara M., 1985-

Description

190 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable. In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.

Series Statement

Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens ; VI

Uniform Title

Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens ; v. 6.

Subjects

• Collective memory
• 146 B.C.-323 A.D
• Antiquities
• Greece > History > 146 B.C.-323 A.D
• Greece > Antiquities
• History
• Collective memory > Greece > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser, and David Weidgenannt -- Roman Greece and the 'Mnemonic turn' : some critical remarks / Dimitris Grigorpoulos, Valentina Di Napoli, Vasilis Evangelidis, Francesco Camia, Dylan Rogers and Stravros Vlizos -- Strategies of remembering in the creation of a colonial society in Patras / Tamara M. Dijkstra -- Contending with the past in Roman Corinth : the Julian Basilica / Catherina de Grazia Vanderpool and Paul D. Scotton -- Heritage socieites? : private associations in Roman Greece / Benedikt Eckhardt -- Performing the past : Salamis, naval contests and the Athenian ephebeia / Zahra Newby -- Greek panhellenic agones in a Roman colony : Corinth and the return of the Isthmian games / Lavina del Basso -- Heroes of their times : intra-mural burials in the urban memorial landscapes of the Roman Peloponnese / Johannes Fouquet -- Public statues as a strategy of remembering in early imperial Messene / Christopher Dickenson -- Shortages, remembering and the construction of time : aspects of Greek honorific culture (2nd century BC- 1st century AD) / David Weidgenannt -- Anchoring political change in post-Sullan Athens / Inger N.I. Kuin -- Reused statues for Roman friends : the past as a political resource in Roman Athens / Muriel Moser -- Strategies of remembering in Greece under Rome : some conclusions / Inger N.I. Kuin and Muriel Moser.

Call Number

JFF 18-1183

ISBN

• 9789088904813
• 9088904812
• 9789088904806
• 9088904804

LCCN

2017465193

OCLC

985683641

Title

Strategies of remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) / edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N. I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt.

Publisher

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens ; VI

Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens ; v. 6.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

146 B.C.-323 A.D.

Added Author

Kuin, Inger N. I., editor.

Moser, Muriel, editor.

Weidgenannt, David, editor.

Dijkstra, Tamara M., 1985- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 18-1183