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11	Sacred image, urban space image, installations, and ritual in the early medieval Roman forum / Kalas, Gregor A. January 1999 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bryn Mawr College, 1999. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 353-379).
12	Poseidonia-Paestum revisited : Tracing aspects of place attachment in an ancient context Byström, Emelie January 2017 (has links) The city of Poseidonia-Paestum on the Italian peninsula has a long and manifold history throughout Antiquity. The city was founded by Greek settlers in the seventh century BC, put under Lucanian rule around 400 BC, and was finally colonized by the Romans in the year of 273 BC. This study aims to connect the tangible traces of history to the intangible feelings for a place and explore how these elements give rise to the psychological process of place attachment. The concept holds and interdisciplinary potential and thus is possible to apply to the ancient material from Poseidonia-Paestum. The Greek agora, the Roman forum and the extramural Sanctuary of Santa Venera is approached and analysed from this perspective. A close reading of previous research on place attachment in combination with the archaeological record from Poseidonia-Paestum has formed the basis for analysing the material. This study has shown that it is possible to contextualize the theoretical framework of place attachment in an ancient material by pointing out the semiotic potency of the material remains from Poseidonia-Paestum. Through this perspective new questions have been raised and interpreted. Ultimately, a deeper understanding of the attitudes and ideas that formed the basis of human actions and decisions in the ancient city of Poseidonia-Paestum has been reached. Poseidonia Paestum place place attachment environmental psychology Sanctuary of Santa Venera Greek agora Roman forum displacement continuity Archaic Classical Roman Lucania identity community History and Archaeology Historia och arkeologi
13	Paving the past: Late Republican recollections in the Forum Romanum Bartels, Aaron David 03 September 2009 (has links) The Forum was the center of Roman life. It witnessed a barrage of building, destruction and reuse from the seventh century BCE onwards. By around 80 BCE, patrons chose to renovate the Senate House and Comitium with a fresh paving of tufa blocks. Masons leveled many ruined altars and memorials beneath the flooring. Yet paving also provided a means of saving some of Rome’s past. They isolated the Lapis Niger with black blocks, to keep the city’s sinking history in their present. Paving therefore became a technology of memory for recording past events and people. Yet how effective was the Lapis Niger as a memorial? Many modern scholars have romanced the site’s cultural continuity. However, in fifty years and after two Lapis Nigers, the Comitium had borne a disparity of monuments and functions. Rome’s historians could not agree on what lay beneath. Verrius Flaccus reports that the Lapis Niger ‘according to others’ might mark the site of Romulus’s apotheosis, his burial, the burial of his foster father Faustulus, or even his soldier, Hostius Hostilius (50.177). Nevertheless, modern archaeologists have found no tombs. Instead of trying to comprehend these legends, most scholars use them selectively to isolate a dictator, deity or date. We must instead understand why so many views of the Lapis Niger emerged in antiquity. Otherwise, like ancient antiquarians, we will re- identify sites without end. Recreating how these material and mental landscapes interacted and spawned new pasts tells us more about the Lapis Niger than any new attribution. / text Roman Forum Comitium Republic Senate Curia Cicero Varro Lapis Niger lacus Curtius Art of Memory Coarelli Boni Sulla Caesar Rostra Ad Herrenium memory theory site experience chthonic subterranean archaeological memory cultural continuity Roman memorials Roman architecture Rome

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