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Author: David M. Pritchard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-02
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 1009413082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most important study of the funeral oration for dead combatants in democratic Athens since Nicole Loraux's classic work.
Author: Judson Herrman
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781585100781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of surviving state funeral orations from Athens (Thucydides, Gorgias, Lysias, Demosthenes, Hypereides and Plato's 'Menexenus'). The translations include introductions and notes, as well as literary and historical commentary.
Author: Nicole Loraux
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006-03-17
Total Pages: 554
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In The Invention of Athens, her first book, Nicole Loraux launched her exploration of Greek - and more particularly Athenian - self-representations: in this case, through the funeral oration. Coordinating past, present, and future generations, the funeral oration emerges in Loraux's account as the state institution and genre through which official memory is performed, cultivated, and transmitted. In her anatomy of the institution and genre of the epitaphics, Loraux illuminates the politics, myths, and gendered discourses and institutions of Antiquity. Loraux shows us again and again how the field of representation, particularly as it emerges in a democratic terrain, is the field of contest. Loraux's work was always concerned with the politics of memory - What shall be remembered? And how? And by whom? And for whom? - the way in which the city represents itself, how it constitutes itself, how it remembers and members itself are among Loraux's central preoccupations, and she makes them ours."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John E. Ziolkowski
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thucydides
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 146558157X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Plato
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1585105236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' funeral oration (from Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War).
Author: Laurialan Reitzammer
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2016-05-11
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0299308200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.
Author: Harold Parker
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-06-25
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 3110573970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Menexenus, in spite of the dearth of scholarly attention it has traditionally received compared to other Platonic texts, is an important dialogue for any consideration of Plato’s views on political philosophy, history, and rhetoric – to say nothing of the dialogue’s contribution to the study of civic ideology and institutions, natural law theory, and Plato’s notion of race. Speeches for the Dead unites the contributions of scholars working on diverse aspects of the dialogue, growing out of a one-day workshop on the same subject at the University of Pennsylvania organized by the editors. In offering a variety of perspectives on the Menexenus, the volume is the very first of its kind in any language. In addition, the volume contains an up-to-date bibliography of scholarship in English, French, German, and Italian. This makes the book a definitive guide and ideal starting point for advanced students and scholars looking for further information about the dialogue.
Author: Clifford Orwin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1997-09-18
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0691017263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examining what seems to be a paradox of ancient Greek character, political scientist Clifford Orwin argues that Thucydides's obvious humanity in the face of his unflinching realism is not a reflection of the Greek's temperament but an aspect of his thought, above all of his articulation of the central problem of political life, the tension between right and compulsion.
