This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.
This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edited by Polly Low, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester, Graham Oliver, Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture, University of Liverpool, and P.J. Rhodes, Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham; Fellow of the British Academy
Contributors: P. J. Rhodes, University of Durham and Fellow of the British Academy Polly Low, University of Manchester Alison Cooley, University of Warwick Angelos Chaniotis, University of Heidelberg Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv University Graham Oliver, University of Liverpool Stefan Goebel, University of Cambridge Lawrence A. Tritle, Loyola Marymount University
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies * The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings * Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World * The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion * Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe * Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries * Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials * Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society
* Preface * Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies * The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings * Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World * The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion * Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe * Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries * Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials * Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society
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