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- Book Title
- Invention of Athens : the Funeral Oration in the Classical City
- Publication Name
- The Invention of Athens
- Title
- The Invention of Athens
- Subtitle
- The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
- Translator
- Alan Sheridan
- Contributor
- Alan Sheridan (Translated by)
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 1890951595
- EAN
- 9781890951597
- ISBN
- 9781890951597
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Genre
- Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Literary Collections, Social Science
- Topic
- Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Speeches, Death & Dying, Ancient / Greece, Rhetoric
- Release Year
- 2006
- Release Date
- 17/03/2006
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 26.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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A revised edition of a groundbreaking work tracing the rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations in ancient Greece, arguing that they served to celebrate the city of Athens and the Athenian citizen.How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations-epitaphioi-from Thucidydes, Gorgias, Lysias, and Demosthenes to Plato. Arguing that the ceremony of public burial began circa 508-460 BCE, Loraux demonstrates that the institution of the funeral oration developed under Athenian democracy. A secular, not a religious phenomenon, a literary genre with fixed rhetoric effects, the funeral oration was inextricably linked to the epainos-praise of the city-rather than to a ritualized lament for the dead as is commonly assumed. Above all, the funeral oration celebrated the city of Athens and the Athenian citizen. Loraux interprets the speeches from literary, anthropological, and political perspectives. She explains how these acts of secular speech invented an image of Athens often at odds with the presumed ideals of democracy. To die in battle for the city was presented as an act of civic choice-the "fine" death that defined the citizen-soldier's noble, aristocratic ethos. At the same time, the funeral oration cultivated an image of democracy at a time when there was, for example, no formal theory of a respect for law and liberty, the supremacy of the collective and public over the individual and the private, or freedom of speech.This new edition of The Invention of Athens includes significant revisions made by Nicole Loraux in 1993. Her aim in editing the original text was to render this groundbreaking work accessible to nonspecialists. Loraux's introduction to this revised volume, as well as important revisions to the 1986 English translation, make this publication an important addition to scholarship in the humanities and the social sciences.
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Zone Books
ISBN-10
1890951595
ISBN-13
9781890951597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50492913
Product Key Features
Book Title
Invention of Athens : the Funeral Oration in the Classical City
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Speeches, Death & Dying, Ancient / Greece, Rhetoric
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Literary Collections, Social Science
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
26.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pa3264.L6713 2006
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-041731
Dewey Decimal
885/.01093548
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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