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Record Nr.

UNISA996203609203316

Autore

Arrington Nathan T.

Titolo

Ashes, images, and memories : the presence of the war dead in fifth-century Athens / / Nathan T. Arrington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-19-006240-1

0-19-936909-7

0-19-936908-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Disciplina

393.0938/509014

Soggetti

War and society - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500

Battle casualties - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500

Burial - Social aspects - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500

War memorials - Greece - Athens - History - To 1500

Electronic books.

Greece History Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C

Greece History Athenian Supremacy, 479-431 B.C

Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C

Athens (Greece) History, Military

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 and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

This study argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democracy claimed the fallen for the city and commemorated them with rituals and images that shaped a civic ideology of struggle and self-sacrifice on behalf of a unified community.