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Ashes, Images, and Memories - The Presences of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,230
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Ashes, Images, and Memories - The Presences of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Paperback): Nathan T. Arrington

Ashes, Images, and Memories - The Presences of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Paperback)

Nathan T. Arrington

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2019
Authors: Nathan T. Arrington
Dimensions: 234 x 167 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-093669-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN: 0-19-093669-X
Barcode: 9780190936693

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