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Alcock Index More information INDEX Abia, 165 Agrippa, Marcus, 63 Academy, 66, 73 n.67 monument of, 60 n.44 Achaea, 46 Odeion of, 53, 55, 63–65 Achaean War, 81 Aithaia, 152–53 Achaia, 36–37, 39–40, 42, 44, 50–51, 69–70, Akkad, 7, 9, 16–17 72, 75, 89, 98, 104, 162 n.60, 176–78, Alexander the Great, 40, 83 n.81 182 amnesias, 17–18, 40 political geography, 49–50 Amnisos, 114 Acharnai, 55 Amphissa, 46, 48 Achilles, 85, 91 Amyklai Acropolis, Athenian, 4–5, 16–17, 19, 27 n.40, on Crete, 121–22 n.44 30, 60 n.44, 64, 85, 89 in Lakonia, 145 n.27 Parthenon, 4–5, 89 n.92 Anaxilas, of Rhegium, 158–59 Temple of Roma and Augustus, 59 n.41, Andania, 143, 144 n.23 89 n.92 Androgeos, son of Minos, 123 Actium, 45 Androklos, 94 Aeneas, 91 Annales,24 Aetolia, Aetolians, 45–48 Antonaccio, C., 166 Ageladas of Argos, 159, 160 n.53 AntoninusPius,50,85n.85 Ager Dentheliates, 133, 148, 172 Aphrodisias, 37, 89–93 Agora, Athenian, 39, 51–60, 62–64, 65 Demos of, 90 nn.49–50, 67–71, 73, 75, 80, 86, 88–89, Sebasteion, 90–93, 178 94,113,177 Aphrodite, 56, 66, 111, 116 activities within, 64–65 at Aphrodisias, 90–91, 93 asahybridspace,96 Ourania, 58–59, 71, 108 n.18 bema, 53, 64 Prometor, 90 “itinerant temples,” 51, 53–58, 71 at Sta Lenika, 116, 119 Nymphaeum, 57, 63 Apollo, 56, 94 n.99, 158, 170 Odeion of Agrippa, 53, 55, 63–65 Korynthos, 143–45, 174 Roman (Market of Caesar and Augustus), Patroos,¨ 55 55, 61–62, 64 Pythian, 120 Southeast Temple, 53, 56, 58, 63–64 Pythios, temple of (the Pythion), 100, 101 Southwest Temple, 53, 56, 58, 63 n.3 Stoa of Attalus, 60, 64 Apollonius of Tyana, 83, 85, 123, 127, 131 Stoa Poikile, 52–53, 58–59, 73 n.67, 74 Appian, 38 Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, 52–53, 60–61 Bella Civilia,38 Temple of Ares, 53, 55–58, 63–65 aqueducts, 88 Tholos, 52–53, 56, 60, 63–64 Arcadia, Arcadians, 50 [213] © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89000-7 - Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories Susan E. Alcock Index More information 214 index Archaeological Reports,127 Attalus II, 60 archaism, 41 Attica, 37, 55, 71, 74, 76, 123, 146 Archanes, 125 Augustine, Saint, 22 Areopagus, 55 Augustus, 45, 55, 60, 61 n.44, 74, 85, 128 Ares (Mars), 55–56, 65–66, 108 n.18 Forum of, 55–56 Borghese, 55 n.31 in the Sebasteion, 91 at Sta Lenika, 108, 116, 119 Aulon, 152 temple in Athenian Agora, 53, 55–58, Autolycus, 60 63–65 Ayia Pelagia, 113 Argolid, 146, 153 Ayia Triada, 109–10, 115 n.34, 116 n.35, 118, Argos, 37, 72 120–21 Ariadne, 118, 123 sarcophagus, 109 Aristides, 74 Ayiofarango Valley, 107–8, 121 Aristogeiton, 56 Ayios Ioannis, 115 Aristomenes, 132, 168, 171, 173–74 heroon,¨ 168 BaldwinBowsky,M.,105,128 Aristotle, 22, 137, 158 n.50 barbarian, 74–75, 87 Politics,137 Bastide, R., 143, 157–58 Armenia, 91–93 battlefields, Persian War, 88, 94 ars memoriae (art of memory), 21–22, 27 monuments, 75–80, 178 Artaphernes, 77 rituals, 80–86 Artemis, 120 n.42 Bhabha, H., 96 Boulaia, 56 Bithynia, 72 of Ephesus, 94, 178, temple of Boeotia, 37, 44–45, 89 (Artemision), 94 Bousquet, J., 116 Laphria, 47 n.20, 171 n.77 Bowie, E. L., 40 Limnatis, sanctuary of, 172, 173 n.79 Bradley, R., 29, 54, 89 Orthia, 72, 170 n.73 Branigan, K., 107 Artemitai, 120 Britain, Britannia, 9, 91, 93 Ascanius, 130 Britomartis, 100, 123 n.47 Ashurbanipal, 7 Bruttium, 58 Asia, 37, 69, 89 Buchenwald, 24 Asine, 133, 152–53, 165 Burke, P., 17–18, 31 n.52 Asklepios, 121, 169–70 Byron, Lord, 3 in the Ayiofarango Valley, 121 Byzantium, 3 at Lebena, 121 at Messene, 168–71, 181 Cadogan, G., 111 Assmann, J., 16–17, 23, 27, 183 cadre mat´eriel, 7, 9, 25, 28, 58, 109, 119 Athena, 27 n.40, 55–56, 79 n.75, 85, 89 Calades, 56 Coryphasian, 172 Caligula, 128–29 Oleria, 108 Callaeci, 91 Pallenis,55n.31 Callaghan, P., 122 at Sounion, 56 Callimachus, 125 n.50 Athenaeus, 64 n.47, 157 n.47 Hymn to Zeus, 125 n.50 Deipnosophistae, 157 n.47 Calvary, 26 Athens, 37–38, 42, 43 n.14, 44–45, 53, 55–56, Cambridge, University of, 20 62, 64, 66–74, 76, 78 n.73, 79 n.75, Camisards, 6, 16, 19 80–84, 85 n.85, 86, 88, 95 n.100, 157 rebellion, 6, 17, 74, 84 n.83 Athenians, 43 n.14, 65, 74, 76, 78–79, 136, Cartledge, P., 72 144, 157, 159 Cassander, 84 GraveoftheAthenians(Soros),76–78 CassiusDio,85 Athmonon, 71 Cato, 74 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89000-7 - Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories Susan E. Alcock Index More information index 215 caves Minoan bias in study, 99–101, 180 association with wisdom, 123–24, 131 personification of, 130 n.55 cult in, 113–15, 119, 130–31, 146, 180 political geography, 101–6 cemeteries, reuse of Provincial Council, 128 in Crete, 115–16 religious traditions, 101 n.3 in Messenia, 167 west, 113 n.28 centuriation, 45–46, 49 Creticus, Q. Metellus, 104 Cevennes,´ 6, 15–16, 19, 31, 51 “cruciform monument,” 7–8 Chaeronea, 86 Crusaders, 25, 163 Chaniotis, A., 102, 119 Culley,G.R.,79 charismatic figures, 17, 20, 173 cult displacement, 46–47, 50, 156, 176 Cherry, J., 36 n.1 Cyprus, 91 Christians, Christianity, 25–26, 163 Cyrenaica, 102, 104, 179 Cicero, Lucius, 67 Cyrene, 72 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 21–22, 61 n.44, 66 Epistulae ad Atticum,61n.44 D’Agata, L., 109 De Finibus, 66–67 Daedalus, 123, 129 n.54, 130 Circus Maximus, 130 Damophon, 169–71 cities Darius, 74 antiquity of, 50 Darwin College Lectures, 20 connections between, 92 Davies, J., 102 decline of, 49–50 de Vargas, Diego, 13–14 Greek, 88–89 Delphi, 48, 60 n.44, 86 n.87, 160, 171 n.77 numbersonCrete,103 Demeter, 122 n.46 rivalries, 82, 87, 102, 179 at Kamilari, 109 ruined, 49 democracy, 52, 66 self-representation, 87 Demostheneia, 94 n.99 warring, 101 Demosthenes, 38, 67 Civil Wars Athenian general, 160 English, 9 Iulius, 94 n.99 Roman, 44–45 dependent populations classical archaeology, 93–94 n.98, 183 n.2 on Crete, 120–21 and social memory, 182–83 in Messenia, 133–34 classicism, 41 dialogos, 80–81, 83 Claudius, 91 diaspora, Messenian, 158–63, 181 colonies Dictys Cretensis, 124, 129 Spartan, 153 Ephemeris Belli Troiani,124 Roman, 45–47, 50, 69, 87–88, 105, Dikte, Mount, 111 122–23, 178 Diktynna, 100, 123 n.47 at Zancle, 158 Diktynnaion, 102, 108, 123 Comaroff, J., 177 Dio Chrysostom, 61 n.44, 83 constellative myths, 17, 74 Oration 31 (Rhodian), 61 n.44, 83 Corinth (Colonia Laus Julia Corinthiensis), Oration 38, 83 37, 44–46, 49, 69, 87, 178 Diodorus, 118 n.37, 124–25, 136 n.6, 155 Costoboci, 81 n.44, 158 n.51, 162 n.57, 168 n.70 Coulson, W. D. E., 150 Dionysia, Athenian, 83 counter-memories, 16, 23 Dioscouri, 72, 168, 171 Crete, 33, 37, 44, 91, 99–102, 103 n.7, 104–6, Dodecanese, 12 108 nn.17, 19, 109 n.20, 112–13, 117, Dodwell, E., 4 123–24, 128–31, 140, 167 n.69, 174, Dorset, 9–10 179–80, 182 Drusus Caesar, 55–56 Isthmus of, 106 Dyme, 37, 45–47 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89000-7 - Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories Susan E. Alcock Index More information 216 index Ebbabar, 7, 30 Five Rivers, in Messenia, 149, 165 n.63, 166 Edict of Nantes, 6 n.65 Edmonds, M., 11 survey, 142 Ancestral Geographies of the Neolithic,11 Flaccus, Quintus Fulvius, 58 Egypt, 22 France,6,16 Eira, Mount, 132–33, 148 French Resistance, 6 Eleusis, 68 n.55 Funkenstein, A., 15 Eleusinian Mysteries, 67, 68 n.54 Eleutheria, at Plataea, 79–82 Gaius Caesar, 55–56 Eleutherna, 102–3, 120 Galba, 129 elite behavior, 17–18, 22–23 Gaul, Gauls, 51 n.25, 84–85 Athenian, 67 Gavdos, 120 Cretan,119,128–29 Geary, P., 34, 36, 173 in Messenia, 154, 167 Phantoms of Memory,34 in Roman Greece, 40–42, 49, 68–70, 80, Glaukos, 122, 179 82, 86–87, 96–97, 177–78 Golgotha, 25–26, 47 Ellenika, 147 n.31, 166 n.66 Gonick, L., The Cartoon History of the emperor, presence of, 88–89 Universe, 139 n.13 Enyo, 56 Gortyn, 100, 102–9, 118, 120–21, 123, 179 Epaminondas, 132, 134, 136, 164–65, 167, Graeculi,38,43,176 169–71, 174 “Greco-Roman,” 88 ephebes Greece, 16, 33, 34 n.57, 36–37, 42–44, 46, 47 Athenian, 80–81 n.20, 49 n.23, 66, 101, 127, 142, 166 Ephesian, 94 “Old,” 36, 38, 44, 50, 69, 85, 96 Spartan, 81 Roman, 36–37, 44, 51, 72, 101 n.4, 140, Ephesus, 37, 69, 72, 94–95, 178 179 as civic landscape, 89 GreekRevolution(WarofIndependence), as hybrid space, 96 3–4, 74 Epirus, 37, 45–46 Eponymous Heroes, 57, 66 Hadrian, 66, 68 n.55, 72 n.62, 73 n.67, 89, 94 Erechtheion, 58, 59 n.41 n.99 Eros, 91 Haggis, D., 106 Eteocretan, Eteocretans, 106, 116, 118, 119 Halbwachs, M., 7, 24–28, 30, 109, 163 n.38 Les cadres sociaux de la m´emoire,24 ethne, in Sebasteion, 91, 93 M´emoire collective,24 Euripides, 138 n.9 La topographie l´egendaire des ´evangiles en Kresphontes,138n.9 terre sainte,25,27,30 Europe, 32, 34, 101 Hambledon Hill, 9–11, 16–18, 30, 145 Euryclids, 73 Hardy, T., 9 Eurymedon, 84 Harmodius, 56 Evander, 50 Hellas, 83–85 Evans, A., 99, 100 n.1, 116 n.35, 117 n.36, Hellenes, 23, 97 125 “best of,” 80–81 exile, 31 n.52 koinon of, 80 Messenian, 138, 140, 155, 158–60, 162, “Hellenist,” 3, 4 n.2, 5, 16 171 n.77, 181 helots, helotage, 132, 134–35, 137–40, 142–43, 145–46, 153–55, 157–58, Fentress, J., 6 162–63, 174, 180 Social Memory,6 danger posed by, 137 Fermor,PatrickLeigh,4n.2 Lakonian, 134 n.3, 135, 154 n.41 Roumeli,4n.2 “leaders of,” 153–55 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89000-7 - Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments, and Memories Susan E.
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