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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arrington, Nathan T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
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.
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.
ISBN:9780199369072
0199369070
Table of Contents:
  • 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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