The Athenian Funeral Oration - After Nicole Loraux

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 the comparison of the funeral oration and other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. The volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2023
Editors:	David M. Pritchard
Foreword by:	Paul Cartledge
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-941308-4
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-00-941308-2
Barcode:	9781009413084

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