Lawrence A Tritle

From Melos to My Lai

A Study in Violence, Culture and Social Survival

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This memorable book is for readers who wonder about the meaning and experience of battle, about the impact of war and violence on our culture, and for anyone interested in the culture of ancient Greece.

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This is a brilliant and moving discussion of the nature of violence in the ancient and modern world and how the traumas experienced affected the survivors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780415217576
• ISBN-10: 0415217571
• Artikelnr.: 21105523

Autorenporträt

Lawrence A. Tritle

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Twentieth Century American Odyssey 2. Listening to Theristes 3.
Achilles and the Heroic Ideal 4. Clearchus' Story: The Heroic Ideal
Transformed 5. Penelope and Waiting Wives and Lovers 6. War, Violence, and
the 'Other' 7. The Historiography and Language of Violence 8. Rhetoric,
Remembrance and Memory 9. The Visibly Dead: Monuments and Their Meaning 10.
The Unanchored Dead: Mental Cases and Walking Wounded