Nathan T Arrington

Ashes, Images, and Memories

The Presence of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how Athenians conceived of military casualties, and traces the ways in which people responded through material culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 179mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780199369072
• ISBN-10: 0199369070
• Artikelnr.: 47869647

Autorenporträt

Nathan T. Arrington is an Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction - "To see them so changed would be their death. "
* Chapter 1 - Mass Ashes: The Origins and Impact of an "Ancestral
Custom "
* Chapter 2 - The Topography and Phenomenology of the Public Cemetery
* Chapter 3 - Naming the Dead: Casualty Lists and the Tenses of
Commemoration
* Chapter 4 - Sacred Space and the Fallen Warrior
* Chapter 5 - Private Engagement with Civic Death: Portrait Statues,
Votive Reliefs, and Wall Paintings
* Chapter 6 - More Than a Name: Private Commemoration in Attic
Cemeteries
* Chapter 7 - The Limits of Commemoration
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index