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Landscapes of Greece: monuments and memorable places March 3, 2009
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Susa, Iran - palimpsest landscapes and archaeology
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Archaeology questions of memory and its materialized forms of the past memory from the conceptual toolkit of the archaeologist
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“Greece, the captive, took her savage victor captive, and brought the arts into rustic Latium” Horace, Epistles 2.1.156
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Roman Empire and the Mediterranean
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The world of the Hellenistic East (Late 4 th -2 nd c. BC)
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Julius Ceasar planning for a condo complex in Gaul (from Asterix) (sites of resistance) Romanization of the Mediterranean?
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Crete Attica Boeotia Thessaly Epirus Macedonia Western Asia
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The problem of Roman Greece
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Romanization and the Eastern Mediterranean - appropriation of existinc economic and socio-cultural frameworks - establishment of a strong maritime network supported by a complex networkk of Roman roads- paved highways of the time with milestones - military interventions, resettlement of populations - creation of Roman provinces and provincial administration involving transformation of landscapes, new practices of land ownership, new urban foundations, introduction of new cult practices
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memory : not a passive engagement with the past but something that needs reworking of the past under new political conditions, new social configurations
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memory : not a consumption of the past but 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 17 th. c.) - “the contemplation of a preferred past from the standpoint of an altered present” (Alcock 40) - longing for an idealized past - a memory practice as political tactic of resistence?
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Centuriation: Roman land allotment West of Dyme, Greece
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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 economic power or the glorious history to compete
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Isthmia Sanctuary of Poseidon
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Ruins as commemoration: Old Parthenon as a ruin in the 5 th century Acropolis
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The classical Agora
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Agora as memorial space
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ephesus surfaces, monuments, public space
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Ephesus public space
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memory : not a consumption of the past but a creative production of the past
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