Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Objectives, Methods, Concepts
  • Objectives
  • What Is Social Memory?
  • Social memory in Ancient Greece : From Mythical Times to the Recent Past
  • Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse
  • Chapter 1. Carriers of Athenian Social Memory
  • Festivals and Public Commemorations
  • Different Memory Communities
  • Monuments and Inscriptions
  • Rhetorical Education
  • Assembly and Law Courts
  • Chapter 2. Athens' Counterimage : The Theban Medizers
  • Fourth-Century Allusions to Thebes' Medizing
  • Theban Conduct during the Persian War
  • Athenian Disposition toward Thebes in 479
  • Memorialization of Thebes' Treason
  • Remembering Theban Medism throughout the Fifth Century
  • Contexts for the Recollection of Theban Medism in the Fourth Century
  • Chapter 3. Mythical Precedent : Athenian Intervention for the Fallen Argives
  • Oratorical Allusions to the Burial of the Seven
  • Constitutive Elements and Formative Influences
  • The Burial of the Seven in Diplomatic and Political Discourse
  • Chapter 4. A Precarious Memory : Theban Help for the Athenian Democrats
  • Belated Praise for Theban Aid?
  • The Situation in Thebes in 404/3
  • Theban Support for Thrasybulus in Athenian Social Memory
  • Chapter 5. Persistent Memories : The Proposed Eradication of Athens
  • The Debate about Athens' Fate in 405/4
  • Fourth-Century Allusions to the Proposed Destruction of Athens
  • Traumatic Fear of Annihilation
  • Semantic and Visual Conceptualizations : City Razing and Enslavement
  • Imagining the Unimaginable : The Eradication of Athens
  • Plataea, Melos and Troy as Aide Memoire
  • Contexts for the Recollection of the Theban Proposal
  • Conclusion.