Woe is Me!: Spatial Logic and Memory in the OIMOI Inscriptions of Selinous

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• Campbell Rosener
• Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:10-14:00
• Richard King room, Darwin College.

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In the ancient Greek city-state of Selinous in Sicily, there is a unique set of funerary inscriptions which directly lament the fate of the deceased. This formula lacks precedent elsewhere in the Greek world, and I explore how the content of these inscriptions interact with the space on which they are laid out, the memorial stones themselves, and the surrounding landscape. I argue that the negative space employed in many of the inscriptions speaks just as forcefully as the text itself, and that it renders memory in terms of absence, not presence.

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