Reset in stone: memory and reuse in ancient Athens

by Rous, Sarah A.

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Title Statements

Full title :Reset in stone : memory and reuse in ancient Athens / Sarah A. Rous.

Summary

This book examines the various ways ancient Athenians purposefully reused stone artifacts, objects, and buildings in order to shape their own and their descendants' collective ideas about their community's past and its bearing on the present and future. The book introduces the concept of "upcycling" to refer to this intentionally meaningful reuse, where evidence is preserved of an intentionality behind the decision to re-employ a particular object in a particular new context, often with implications for the shared memory of a group. Utilizing archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence, this investigation connects seemingly disparate cases of upcycling over eight centuries of Athenian history, treating the city as a continuously evolving cultural community. In establishin g upcycling as a distinct phenomenon of intentionally meaningful reuse, this study offers a process- and agency-focused alternative to the traditional discourses on spolia and reuse, while also making a substantial contribution to the growing field of memory studies by identifying a crucial component within the overall "work of memory" within a community. Through an original interdisciplinary approach, the book illuminates a vital practice through which Athenians shaped social memory in the physical realm, literally building their history into their city

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University of Wisconsin Press
Place of Publication:Madison, Wisconsin
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780299322830, 0299322831
oclc:on1125006347
LC Classification:DF289
Dewey Decimal:938/.5

Creating social memory through reuse that accentuates -- Perpetuating social memory through reuse that preserves -- Altering social memory through reuse meant to be invisible -- Upcycling and Athenian social memory over the Longue Durée.

Subjects

Antiquities Appropriation (Architecture) ART -- General Athens (Greece) -- Antiquities Athens (Greece) -- Buildings, structure… Building materials -- Recycling Building materials -- Recycling -- Gree… buildings Collective memory Collective memory -- Greece Construction -- Matériaux -- Grèce Greece -- Athens Mémoire collective -- Grèce Monuments -- Recyclage -- Grèce Monuments -- Recycling -- Greece