STRATEGIES OF REMEMBERING IN GREECE 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 ATHENS 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 Achaea. 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: 191 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 Attica and the Peloponnese 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. 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City:______________________Postalcode:____________ Send this order form to: Sidestone Press, Fruitweg 46A 2321 DH Leiden (The Netherlands) or mail this form to [email protected] Country:________________________________________ STRATEGIES OF REMEMBERING IN GREECE 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 ATHENS VI CONTENTS Preface: Relaunching the Publications of the Netherlands Insti- tute at Athens Series Winfred van de Put (director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens) Introduction Tamara M. Dijkstra, Inger N.I. Kuin, Muriel Moser, and David Weidgenannt Part I: Building Remembrance Part III: Honoring Tradition Roman Greece and the ‘Mnemonic Turn’. Some Critical Re- Heroes of Their Times. Intra-Mural Burials in the Urban Memo- marks rial Landscapes of the Roman Peloponnese Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Valentina Di Napoli, Vasilis Evangelidis, Johannes Fouquet Francesco Camia, Dylan Rogers and Stavros Vlizos Public Statues as a Strategy of Remembering in Early Imperial Strategies of Remembering in the Creation of a Colonial Society Messene in Patras Christopher Dickenson Tamara M. Dijkstra Shortages, Remembering and the Construction of Time: Aspects Contending with the Past in Roman Corinth: The Julian Basilica of Greek Honorific Culture (2nd century BC – 1st century AD) Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool and Paul D. Scotton David Weidgenannt Part II: Competing with the Past Part IV: History in Athens Heritage Societies? Private Associations in Roman Greece Anchoring Political Change in Post-Sullan Athens Benedikt Eckhardt Inger N.I. Kuin Performing the Past: Salamis, Naval Contests and the Athenian Reused Statues for Roman Friends: The Past as a Political Re- Ephebeia source in Roman Athens Zahra Newby Muriel Moser Greek Panhellenic Agones in a Roman Colony: Corinth and the Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome: Some Con- Return of the Isthmian Games clusions Lavinia del Basso Inger N.I. Kuin and Muriel Moser.