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Ashes, Images, and Memories - The Presences of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Paperback)
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Ashes, Images, and Memories - The Presences of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Paperback)
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Ashes, Images, and Memories 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 fifth-century Athens. 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. While most
studies of Athenian public burial have focused on discrete aspects
of the institution, such as the funeral oration, this book broadens
the scope. It examines the presence of the war dead in cemeteries,
civic and sacred spaces, the home, and the mind, and underscores
the role of material culture - from casualty lists to white-ground
lekythoi-in mediating that presence. This approach reveals that
public rites and monuments shaped memories of the war dead at the
collective and individual levels, spurring private commemorations
that both engaged with and critiqued the new ideals and the city's
claims to the body of the warrior. Faced with a collective notion
of "the fallen" families asserted the qualities, virtues, and
family links of the individual deceased, and sought to recover
opportunities for private commemoration and personal remembrance.
Contestation over the presence and memory of the dead often
followed class lines, with the elite claiming service and
leadership to the community while at the same time reviving Archaic
and aristocratic commemorative discourses. Although Classical Greek
art tends to be viewed as a monolithic if evolving whole, this book
depicts a fragmented and charged visual world.
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