STRATEGIES OF REMEMBERING IN UNDER ROME (100 BC - 100 AD)

edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt

PUBLICATIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE AT VI

engaged actively with the increasing funerary culture, festival and associ- presence of Roman rule and its repre- ation, honorific practices, Greek lit- sentatives. The archaeological and ep- erature, and political ideology. The igraphic records attest to the contin- variety of these strategies attests to At the beginning of the first century ued economic vitality of the region: the vitality of the region. In times of BC Athens was an independent city buildings, statues, and lavish tombs transition the past cannot be ignored: bound to Rome through a friendship were still being constructed. There actors use what came before, in di- alliance. By the end of the first centu- is hence need to counterbalance the verse and complex ways, in order to ry AD the city had been incorporated traditional discourses of weakness on build the present. into the Roman province of . Roman Greece, and to highlight how Along with Athenian independence acts of remembering were employed perished the notion of Greek self- as resources in this complex political rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by situation. Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel the governor of Macedonia already Moser & David Weidgenannt (eds): since 146 BC, but the numerous de- The legacy of Greece defined Greek Strategies of Remembering in Greece fections of Greek cities during the and Roman responses to the chang- Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD). first century BC show that Roman ing relationship. Both parties looked • ISBN: 9789088904806 rule was not yet viewed as inevitable. to the past in shaping their interac- • Number of pages: ca. 285 tions, but how this was done varied • Paperback: € 34.95 (ex. shipping) In spite of the definitive loss of self- widely. Sulla fashioned himself after • Upon publication, available for FREE rule this was not a period of decline. the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and online reading and the were spe- Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes • Also available as hardback, see website cial regions because of their legacy as evoked the sea-battles of the Persian • Sidestone Press / www.sidestone.com cultural and religious centres of the Wars to fashion their valour. This in- • More information & pre-ordering Mediterranean. Supported by this terdisciplinary volume traces strate- • Series: Publications of the Netherlands legacy communities and individuals gies of remembering in city building, Institute at Athens vol. VI

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edited by Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser & David Weidgenannt

PUBLICATIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE AT ATHENS VI

CONTENTS

Preface: Relaunching the Publications of the Netherlands Insti- tute at Athens Series W. van de Put Introduction T.M. Dijkstra, I.N.I. Kuin, M. Moser, D. Weidgenannt

Part I: Building Remembrance Part IV: History in Athens

1. Roman Greece and the ‘Mnemonic Turn’: Some Critical 10. Political Change in Post-Sullan Athens Remarks I.N.I. Kuin D. Grigoropoulos, V. Di Napoli, V. Evangelidis, F. Camia, D. Rogers, 11. Public Honours for Roman Friends: The Past as a Political S. Vlizos Resource on the Roman Acropolis 2. Managing Social Roles after Death: The Strategic Use of M. Moser Tombs in Roman 12. The Past in the Present: Athenian Inscriptional Language T.M. Dijkstra Regarding the Divine, the Roman Challenge and the Construc- 3. Contending with the Past in Roman tion of Urban Mnemonics C. de Grazia Vanderpool, P.D. Scotton E. Fassa

Part II: Competing with the Past Conclusion: Change and Remembering in Roman Greece I.N.I. Kuin, M. Moser 4. Heritage Societies? Private Associations in Roman Greece (1st century BC to 2nd century AD) B. Eckhardt 5. Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athe- nian Ephebeia Z. Newby 6. Greek Panhellenic Agones in a Roman Colony: Corinth and the Return of the Isthmian Games L. del Basso

Part III: Honoring Tradition

7. Heroes of Their Times. Intra-Mural Burials in the Urban Memorial Landscapes of the Roman Peloponnese J. Fouquet 8. Public Statues as a Strategy of Remembrance in Roman Mes- sene C. Dickenson 9. ἀρετῆς ἕνεκεν καὶ εὐνοίας: Commemorating Times of Crisis D. Weidgenannt