Ashes, images, and memories : the presence of the war dead in fifth-century Athens /

This study 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 a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democracy claimed the fallen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arrington, Nathan T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Temas:
To 1500
War and society > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Battle casualties > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Burial > Social aspects > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
War memorials > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Attitude to Death
Burial > history
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Battle casualties.
War and society.
War memorials.
Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
Greece > History > Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
Greece > History > Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Athens (Greece) > History, Military.
Grèce > Histoire > 500-449 av. J.-C. (Guerres médiques)
Grèce > Histoire > 479-431 av. J.-C. (Apogée d'Athènes)
Grèce > Histoire > 431-404 av. J.-C. (Guerre du Péloponnèse)
Greece.
Greece > Athens.
History.
Military history.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "to see them so changed would be their death"
  • Mass ashes: the origins and impact of an "ancestral custom"
  • The topography and phenomenology of the public cemetery
  • Naming the death: casualty lists and the tenses of commemoration
  • Sacred space and the fallen warrior
  • Private engamgent with civic death: portrait statues, votive reliefs, and wall painting
  • More than a name: private commemoration in attic cememteries
  • The limits of commemoration
  • Conclusion.

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