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Sparta and the commemoration of war /

"An engaging, authoritative exploration of the ways in which the ancient Spartans thought about and remembered their wars and their war dead. Matthew Sears shows that the Spartan commemoration informs contemporary acts of remembrance. Thinking about Sparta, he suggests, inspires us to reconside...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sears, Matthew A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
War and society > Greece > Sparta (Extinct city)
War memorials > Greece > Sparta (Extinct city)
Memorialization > Greece > Sparta (Extinct city)
Collective memory > Greece > Sparta (Extinct city)
Sparta (Extinct city) > Historiography.
Guerre et société > Grèce > Sparte (Ville ancienne)
Monuments aux morts > Grèce > Sparte (Ville ancienne)
Commémorations > Grèce > Sparte (Ville ancienne)
Mémoire collective > Grèce > Sparte (Ville ancienne)
Sparte (Ville ancienne) > Historiographie.
Collective memory.
Historiography.
Memorialization.
War and society.
War memorials.
Greece > Sparta (Extinct city)
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Summary:"An engaging, authoritative exploration of the ways in which the ancient Spartans thought about and remembered their wars and their war dead. Matthew Sears shows that the Spartan commemoration informs contemporary acts of remembrance. Thinking about Sparta, he suggests, inspires us to reconsider our own relationship to conflict and memory"--
Physical Description:xix, 274 pages : illustrations (color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781316519455
1316519457
9781009010535
1009010530