Herodes Atticus, Material Memories, and the Expression and Reception of Grief
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20049352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Estelle Strazdins (0000-0002-7792-5111, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 175-202 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Memory and Emotions in Antiquity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783111345246-009 |
| OpenAlex | W4390932826 |
| ISBN | 9783111345246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Herodes Atticus is known as much for his outrageous grief as for his impressive attempts to build himself into the cityscapes and memorial landscapes of the eastern Roman empire. This chapter examines some of Herodes' more personal monuments - curse-inscribed herms of his foster sons and the Gate of Eternal Concord - within the context of their spatial relationships, Herodes' personal commemorative programme, and his own theorising on apatheia and pathêreported in Gellius' Attic Nights. I argue that Herodes' private memorialisation is designed to materialise his grief and transfer it to the viewer in an effort to overwrite existing cultural meaning attached to commemorative landscapes with his own legacy. Nevertheless, these attempts both prove unsatisfactory to Herodes himself, because they fail to conquer the cause of his grief - i.e. death - and they are received cynically by his contemporaries, who remain unconvinced by his emotion and the identity he shapes through it
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Curse · Epistemology · Genealogy · Grief · Inscribed figure · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |