Spazi altri e strategie del ricordo nel mondo greco. Note di metodo e un caso di studio

This article investigates the role of memory in space studies and especially the role of space in memory studies. In particular, it examines the studies that gave rise to the spatial turn and attempts to reconstruct ‘the spatial turn before the spatial turn’ from the reflections of scholars such as Lucio Gambi, Henri Lefebvre and Michel Foucault. This backward review concludes with an analysis of Maurice Halbwachs’ work and the role played by space in Halbwachs’ conception of collective memory. The article closes with a case study focusing on the positioning of monuments in the sanctuary of Delphi. Delphi is understood as an ‘other space’ (in some ways therefore heterotopic, but above all heterochronic) in which different communities have reproduced but also contributed to the construction of their own history on several occasions and at different times. Such processes of construction and reconstruction are possible by virtue of the particular interdependence and reciprocal influence between space and anthropic intervention, the latter understood as the deployment of precise processes of memorialisation.