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Memory, Space and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 500
Building on different types of evidence, and spanning from Archaic to Roman times, the contributors to this volume address the complex relationship of memory and space in a variety of instances and methodological approaches. As a whole, the volume emphasizes how the Greeks deployed a strong sense of place and locality, especially the epichoric element, in communion with the stuff of memory—stories, myths, and narratives—to shape communal identities. This is far more than a matter of inventing traditions and rather takes us to the heart of how the Greeks experienced their worlds. From Pindar to Actium, for the Greeks the world was experienced as a series of mnemotopes.
Giorgia Proietti, Ph.D. (2014), University of Trento, is a Tenured Assistant Professor at that University, where she also coordinates the LIMS_Interdepartmental Laboratory Memory and Society. She has published extensively about Greek History and Memory Studies on international journals, co-edited several books mainly focusing on the commemoration of war in ancient and modern societies, and authored the book Prima di Erodoto. Aspetti della memoria delle Guerre persiane (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2021).
Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D. (1992), University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to articles and edited volumes on landscape, ethnicity and Greek epigraphy he is the author of The Cattle of the Sun (2010), Greece in the Ancient World (2018) and Centaurs and Snake Kings. Hybrids and the Greek Imagination (2024).
Contributors are: Francesco Buè, Ben Cassell, Marco Ferrario, Elena Franchi, Antonio Iacoviello, Katharina Kostopoulos, Alexandru Martalogu, Jeremy McInerney, Marion Meyer, Giorgia Proietti, Jerome Ruddick, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Roy van Wijk, Christina Williamson.
Jeremy McInerney, Ph.D. (1992), University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to articles and edited volumes on landscape, ethnicity and Greek epigraphy he is the author of The Cattle of the Sun (2010), Greece in the Ancient World (2018) and Centaurs and Snake Kings. Hybrids and the Greek Imagination (2024).
Contributors are: Francesco Buè, Ben Cassell, Marco Ferrario, Elena Franchi, Antonio Iacoviello, Katharina Kostopoulos, Alexandru Martalogu, Jeremy McInerney, Marion Meyer, Giorgia Proietti, Jerome Ruddick, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Roy van Wijk, Christina Williamson.
Preface
List of Figures
Contributors
1 General Introduction
Giorgia Proietti and Jeremy McInerney
2 How do Memory and Space Meet?
Perspectives from Ancient History
Giorgia Proietti
3 The Methodology of Memory
The Acropolis of Athens as a Memoryscape of the Persian Wars in Antiquity
Janric van Rookhuijzen
4 The Epinician Odes and Aspective Memory
Pindar and his Way of Recalling Architectures
Francesco Buè
5 The Myth-Historical Geography of the Athenian Leadership of the Delian League
Mnemo-spatial Dialogues in Athens and Delphi
Giorgia Proietti
6 Recalling a Heroic Death
Cognitive and Embodied Approaches to the Aglaurion and Ephebic Oath
Ben Cassell
7 Memory through Space and Time in the Speeches of Aeschines
Katharina Kostopoulos
8 Untangling the ‘Face of the 280s’
Space, Text and Memory in Athenian Public Honors (322–261 BCE)
Antonio Iacoviello
9 Imaginary Borders in the Eastern Peloponnese
The Battles for Thyrea and (the Memory of) the Heracleidae
Elena Franchi
10 Pushing Boundaries
Lykosoura’s Use of Myth, Memory and Space in the Hellenistic Period
Jerome Ruddick
11 The Arta Polyandrion: (Re)creating Memory in the Landscape
Jeremy McInerney
12 “That Sends me down to the River”: Rivers as Mindscapes in Oropos
Roy van Wijk
13 Actian Nikopolis and Rome’s Greek coloniae
Collective Memory and Space in Graeco-Roman Contexts
Alexandru Martalogu
14 A (Not So) Quiet Place
Teispid-Achaemenid Northeastern Central Asia: Cyrus’ Legacy, Imperial Topophilia, Mnemo-Histories
Marco Ferrario
15 Urban Mindscapes and Sacred Timescapes in the Graeco-Roman World
The Asklepieion of Pergamon
Christina Williamson
16 The Statue of Antiochia, Personification of Antioch in Syria
Connecting Space with Time (the Present, the Future—and the Past)
Marion Meyer
Index of Greek Terms
Index Locorum
General Index
List of Figures
Contributors
1 General Introduction
Giorgia Proietti and Jeremy McInerney
Part 1 Methodologies
2 How do Memory and Space Meet?
Perspectives from Ancient History
Giorgia Proietti
3 The Methodology of Memory
The Acropolis of Athens as a Memoryscape of the Persian Wars in Antiquity
Janric van Rookhuijzen
4 The Epinician Odes and Aspective Memory
Pindar and his Way of Recalling Architectures
Francesco Buè
Part 2 Classical Athens
5 The Myth-Historical Geography of the Athenian Leadership of the Delian League
Mnemo-spatial Dialogues in Athens and Delphi
Giorgia Proietti
6 Recalling a Heroic Death
Cognitive and Embodied Approaches to the Aglaurion and Ephebic Oath
Ben Cassell
7 Memory through Space and Time in the Speeches of Aeschines
Katharina Kostopoulos
8 Untangling the ‘Face of the 280s’
Space, Text and Memory in Athenian Public Honors (322–261 BCE)
Antonio Iacoviello
Part 3 The Peloponnese
9 Imaginary Borders in the Eastern Peloponnese
The Battles for Thyrea and (the Memory of) the Heracleidae
Elena Franchi
10 Pushing Boundaries
Lykosoura’s Use of Myth, Memory and Space in the Hellenistic Period
Jerome Ruddick
Part 4 Central and Northern Greece
11 The Arta Polyandrion: (Re)creating Memory in the Landscape
Jeremy McInerney
12 “That Sends me down to the River”: Rivers as Mindscapes in Oropos
Roy van Wijk
13 Actian Nikopolis and Rome’s Greek coloniae
Collective Memory and Space in Graeco-Roman Contexts
Alexandru Martalogu
Part 5 Asia Minor and the East
14 A (Not So) Quiet Place
Teispid-Achaemenid Northeastern Central Asia: Cyrus’ Legacy, Imperial Topophilia, Mnemo-Histories
Marco Ferrario
15 Urban Mindscapes and Sacred Timescapes in the Graeco-Roman World
The Asklepieion of Pergamon
Christina Williamson
16 The Statue of Antiochia, Personification of Antioch in Syria
Connecting Space with Time (the Present, the Future—and the Past)
Marion Meyer
Index of Greek Terms
Index Locorum
General Index
This book is targeted to students and scholars interested in Graeco-Roman antiquity from both a literary and archaeological perspective, and to academic institutes and libraries accordingly.