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Author : Saint Gregory Nazianzen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813214023
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Author : Judson Herrman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781585100781
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 : Thucydides
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Funeral orations
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Author : David M. Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1009413066
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.
Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : History
ISBN :
"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 : Thucydides
Publisher :
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Greece
ISBN :
Author : xxWilliam H. F. Altmanxx
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498516259
In a new approach to a vexing problem in modern philosophy, William H. F. Altman shows that Heidegger's decision to join the Nazis in 1933 can only be understood in the context of his complicated relationship with the Great War.
Author : Saint Gregory Nazianzen
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2010-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813211220
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Author : C. H. Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Alton (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Sarah J. Purcell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1469668343
This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a diverse set of people to contribute to changing American national identities. These funerals featured lengthy processions that sometimes crossed multiple state lines, burial ceremonies open to the public, and other cultural productions of commemoration such as oration and song. As Sarah J. Purcell reveals, Americans' participation in these funeral rites led to contemplation and contestation over the political and social meanings of the war and the roles played by the honored dead. Public mourning for military heroes, reformers, and politicians distilled political and social anxieties as the country coped with the aftermath of mass death and casualties. Purcell shows how large-scale funerals for figures such as Henry Clay and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson set patterns for mourning culture and Civil War commemoration; after 1865, public funerals for figures such as Robert E. Lee, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Winnie Davis elaborated on these patterns and fostered public debate about the meanings of the war, Reconstruction, race, and gender.