Memory and Movement in the Roman Fora from Antiquity to Metro C, JSAH 73.4 (2014) 478-506 (original) (raw)

Movement, particularly repeated or ritualized movement, can play an important role in the practices of cultural memory. Using Jan Assmann’s concept of cultural and communicative memory to explore the creation and reproduction of cultural memory through movement, Memory and Movement in the Roman Fora from Antiquity to Metro C illuminates the enduring influence of ancient street networks on the modern cityscape of Rome. The Forum Romanum and the neighboring Imperial Fora were places of memory in antiquity and are major tourist sites today, but they have had different relationships to urban movement networks. Amy Russell argues that the pattern of long-term continuity and recent change in each area’s relationship to the wider city and its movement patterns are direct consequences of the way cultural heritage has been consumed and cultural memory constructed through movement. This is a low-res b/w copy to protect the holders of image copyrights. See http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jsah.2014.73.4.478 for the full version.