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The Past in the Past: Traditionalism in Archaic Crete
April 14 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
AIA Society: New Haven
Lecturer: Grace Erny
This talk focus on how ancient Greek communities on the island of Crete thought about their island’s past. I discuss several case studies of engagement with older landscape features and ways of life, including the construction of megalithic buildings in the countryside, the use and display of non-Greek inscriptions, and open-air ritual practice at significant locations. Material interactions with real or imagined pasts were key strategies for consolidating power during a period of demographic growth, competition for resources, and emerging forms of social inequality in the seventh through the fifth centuries BCE.
The Barbara Tsakirgis Memorial Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, Yale University
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