| Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories Contributor(s): Alcock, Susan E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521813557 ISBN-13: 9780521813556 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $96.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 938 |
| LCCN: 2002071565 |
| Series: W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7" W x 9.9" (1.25 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alcock, Susan E.: - 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). |