Social memory in Athenian public discourse : uses and meanings of the past / / Bernd Steinbock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815621703321
• Autore: Steinbock Bernd
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2013]
• ISBN: 1-283-94165-1; 0-472-02841-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/23850384
• Soggetti: Memory - Social aspects - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500; Collective memory - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500; Historiography - Social aspects - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500; Discourse analysis - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500; Athens (Greece) Relations Greece Thebes; Thebes (Greece) Relations Greece Athens; Thebes (Greece) Foreign public opinion; Athens (Greece) Politics and government; Athens (Greece) Social life and customs; Greece History To 146 B.C
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-376) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : Objectives, Methods, Concepts -- Objectives -- What Is Social Memory? -- Social memory in Ancient Greece : From Mythical Times to the Recent Past -- Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse -- Chapter 1. Carriers of Athenian Social Memory -- Festivals and Public Commemorations -- Different Memory Communities -- Monuments and Inscriptions -- Rhetorical Education -- Assembly and Law Courts -- Chapter 2. Athens' Counterimage : The Theban Medizers -- Fourth-Century Allusions to Thebes' Medizing -- Theban Conduct during the Persian War -- Athenian Disposition toward Thebes in 479 -- Memorialization of Thebes' Treason -- Remembering Theban Medism throughout the Fifth Century -- Contexts for the Recollection of Theban Medism in the Fourth Century -- Chapter 3. Mythical ; Precedent : Athenian Intervention for the Fallen Argives -- Oratorical Allusions to the Burial of the Seven -- Constitutive Elements and Formative Influences -- The Burial of the Seven in Diplomatic and Political Discourse -- Chapter 4. A Precarious Memory : Theban Help for the Athenian Democrats -- Belated Praise for Theban Aid? -- The Situation in Thebes in 404/3 -- Theban Support for Thrasybulus in Athenian Social Memory -- Chapter 5. Persistent Memories : The Proposed Eradication of Athens -- The Debate about Athens' Fate in 405/4 -- Fourth-Century Allusions to the Proposed Destruction of Athens -- Traumatic Fear of Annihilation -- Semantic and Visual Conceptualizations : City Razing and Enslavement -- Imagining the Unimaginable : The Eradication of Athens -- Plataea, Melos and Troy as Aide Memoire -- Contexts for the Recollection of the Theban Proposal -- Conclusion.