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Landscapes of Greece: monuments and memorable places
March 3, 2009
Susa, Iran - palimpsest landscapes and archaeology
Archaeology questions of memory and its materialized forms of the past
memory from the conceptual toolkitof the archaeologist
“Greece, the captive, took her savage victor captive,and brought the arts into rustic Latium”
Horace, Epistles 2.1.156
Roman Empire and the Mediterranean
The world of the Hellenistic East (Late 4th-2nd c. BC)
Julius Ceasar planning for a condo complex in Gaul (from Asterix)(sites of resistance)
Romanization of the Mediterranean?
Crete
Attica
Boeotia
Thessaly
Epirus
Macedonia
Western Asia
The problem ofRoman Greece
Romanization and the Eastern Mediterranean
- appropriation of existinc economic and socio-culturalframeworks
- establishment of a strong maritime network supportedby a complex networkk of Roman roads- pavedhighways of the time with milestones
- military interventions, resettlement of populations
- creation of Roman provinces and provincial administrationinvolving transformation of landscapes, new practicesof land ownership, new urban foundations, introductionof new cult practices
memory : not a passive engagement with the pastbut something that needs reworking of the pastunder new political conditions, new socialconfigurations
memory : not a consumption of the pastbut a creative production of the past
nostalgia nostos “returning home” algos “pain”
- lit. “painful desire to return”"the pain a person feels because he wishes to return to his native home, and fears never to see it again" (a pathological condition 17th. c.)
- “the contemplation of a preferred pastfrom the standpoint of an altered present” (Alcock 40)
- longing for an idealized past
- a memory practice as political tactic of resistence?
Centuriation: Roman land allotment
West of Dyme, Greece
Landscape transformation in Roman Greece(rural, provincial, civic, cultic)
- relative abandonment of the countryside and the diminishing of rural cult activity
-shifts in land ownership in favor of the wealthy(Roman villas/latifundia?)
-demise of certain small cities as they lacked the economicpower or the glorious history to compete
Isthmia
Sanctuary of Poseidon
Ruins as commemoration: Old Parthenon as a ruin in the 5th century Acropolis
The classical Agora
Agora as memorial space
ephesus surfaces, monuments, public space
Ephesus public space
memory : not a consumption of the pastbut a creative production of the past