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Chapter 22 - Different Pasts: Using and Constructing Memory in Augustan Carthage and Corinth

from Part IV - Locating Cultural Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2023

Martin T. Dinter
Affiliation:
King's College London
Charles Guérin
Affiliation:
Université de Paris IV
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Since the work of Maurice Halbwachs, the spatial dimension and conditionality of memory – its connectedness and links to space and place – have been well known.1 Halbwachs asserts that collective memory is only possible if it is ‘localized’.2 Hence, the trope of a city or town as a landscape of memory has become fixed in memory studies and has even given rise to the term ‘urban memory’.3 Urban memory can refer to anthropomorphic phenomena (as when the city is said to have a memory of its own). More commonly, however, it points to the city’s status as a physical place and an ensemble of objects and practices which enables recollections of the past and embodies it through traces of successive building and rebuilding.4 The inhabitants of a city thus draw upon its image to identify with its past and present as a political, cultural, and social entity. In that sense, the urban landscape of Republican and Imperial Rome has thoroughly been investigated and reconstructed as a landscape of memory.

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Print publication year: 2023

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