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The Treatment of the War Dead in Archaic Athens - An Ancestral Custom (Hardcover)
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The Treatment of the War Dead in Archaic Athens - An Ancestral Custom (Hardcover)
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Exploring the representations of the war dead in early Greek
mythology, particularly the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle,
alongside iconographic images on black-figure pottery and the
evidence of funerary monuments adorning the graves of early
Athenian elites, this book provides much-needed insight into the
customs associated with the war dead in Archaic Athens. It is
demonstrated that this period had remarkably little in common with
the much-celebrated institutions of the Classical era, standing in
fact much closer to the hierarchical ideals enshrined in the epics
of Homer and early mythology. While the public burial of the war
dead in Classical Athens has traditionally been a subject of much
scholarly interest, and the origins of the procedures described by
Thucydides as patrios nomos are still a matter of some debate, far
less attention has been devoted to the Athenian war dead of the
preceding era. This book aims to redress the imbalance in modern
scholarship and put the spotlight on the Athenian war dead of the
Archaic period. In addition, the book deepens our understanding of
the processes which led to the establishment of first public
burials and the Classical customs of patrios nomos, shedding
significant light on the military, cultural and social history of
Archaic Athens. Challenging previous assumptions and bringing new
material to the table, the book proposes a number of new ways to
investigate a period where many 'ancestral customs' were thought to
have their roots.
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