Athenian Funeral Oration (eBook, PDF)

After Nicole Loraux
Redaktion: Pritchard, David M. (University of Queensland)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2024
• ISBN-13: 9781009413046
• Artikelnr.: 70909692

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Foreword by Paul
Cartledge ; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The funeral oration after
Loraux David M. Pritchard; Part I. Contexts: 2. The 'beautiful death' from
Homer to democratic Athens Nicole Loraux (translated by David M.
Pritchard); 3. Between ideology and the imaginary: the invention of The
Invention of Athens Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard (translated by David
M. Pritchard); 4. An imaginary with images: reconsidering the funeral
oration and material culture Nathan T. Arrington; Part II. The Historical
Speeches: 5. The epitaphios logos of Pericles: Thucydides' ambivalence
towards the genre Bernd Steinbock; 6. Demosthenes after the defeat Leonhard
Burckhardt (translated by Edith Foster and David M. Pritchard); 7.
Originality and tradition in Hyperides' Funeral Oration Judson Herrman;
Part III. The Literary Examples: 8. Gorgias' Funeral Oration Johannes
Wienand; 9. Authorship and ideology in Lysias' Funeral Oration Alastair J.
L. Blanshard; 10. Corrupting the youth in Plato's Menexenus Ryan K. Balot;
11. 'To gloat over our catastrophes': Isocrates on commemorating the war
dead Thomas Blank; Part IV. Intertextuality: 12. Imagining Athens in the
assembly Peter Hunt; 13. Fighting talk: war's human cost in drama and
law-court speeches Jason Crowley; 14. Making Athens great again: tragedy
and the funeral oration Sophie Mills; 15. Euripides' Erechtheus and the
Athenian catalogue of exploits: how a tragic plot shaped the funeral
oration Johanna Hanink; 16. 'Back then when the barbarian came': old comedy
and the funeral oration Bernhard Zimmermann (translated by Edith Foster and
David M. Pritchard); Part V. The Language of Democracy: 17. The funeral
oration as a self-portrait of Athenian democracy Dominique Lenfant
(translated by David M. Pritchard); 18. Sailors in the funeral oration and
beyond David M. Pritchard; 19. 'Freedom is the sure possession': modern
receptions of Pericles' Funeral Oration Neville Morley; References; General
index; Index of sources