Dossier "Memory and oblivion in the Ancient World"

Starting from an interdisciplinary approach, which combines textual and archaeological documentation, and unites disciplines such as History, Archeology and Classical Literature, this dossier analyzes the Mediterranean World in Antiquity.

The model is interdisciplinary by networking concepts from different areas: sociology, anthropology, archeology, literary analysis, politics and urbanism and seeks to verify, in the complex reality, the lives of people who struggled to find the places assigned to them by cultural, legal, administrative, philosophical, economic, religious and political relations that guided life in the Mediterranean in studies that can range from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. 

The memory perceived from the manipulated documentation is articulated, at the time of writing the narratives and the production of material culture, to the processes of (re)construction of images of the past, because, as observed by Matthew Roller (2009, p. 216), starting from the elaboration of exempla, the images are linked to the production of a past to guide the moment of the authors' writing and the making of material culture, encompassing the production of a memory connected to a common past.