Cultures of commemoration : war memorials, ancient and modern /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	British Academy
Other Authors:	Low, Polly, Oliver, G. J. (Graham John), 1966-, Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:	Proceedings of the British Academy ; 160.
Subjects:	War memorials. War memorials > History. Commemmoration

Table of Contents:

Comparing cultures of commemoration in ancient and modern societies / Polly Low & Graham Oliver
The monuments to the war dead in classical Athens: form, contexts, meanings / Polly Low
The ritualized commemoration of war in the Hellenistic city: memory, identity, emotion / Angelos Chaniotis
Commemorating the war dead of the Roman world / Alison Cooley
Two Neoclassical monuments in modern France: the Panthéon and Arc de Triomphe / Avner Ben-Amos
Naming the dead, writing the individual: classical traditions and commemorative practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Graham Oliver
Cultural memory and the Great War: medievalism and classicism in British and German war memorials / Stefan Goebel
Monument to defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American culture and society / Lawrence A. Tritle.