Memory, Space and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece

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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... Read More

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Memory, Space and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece

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This volume takes us to the heart of how the ancient Greeks, from Pindar to Actium, deployed a strong sense of place and locality, along with the stuff of memory—stories, myths, and narratives—to shape communal identities.

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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.

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ISBN: 9789004749900

Publisher: Brill

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 February 2026

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: Brill

Contributors:

Volume editor Giorgia Proietti
Volume editor Jeremy McInerney

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 35.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 900g

Pages: 468

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements

About the Author

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.

Memory, Space and Mindscapes in Ancient Greece