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

This study argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democracy claimed the fallen...

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Main Author: Arrington, Nathan T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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520 8 |a This study argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democracy claimed the fallen for the city and commemorated them with rituals and images that shaped a civic ideology of struggle and self-sacrifice on behalf of a unified community. 
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505 0 |a ""Cover""; ""Ashes, Images, and Memories""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgmentsâ€?""; "" Introduction: “To See Them So Changed Would Be Their Deathâ€?""; ""1 Mass Ashes: The Origins and Impact of an “Ancestral Customâ€?""; ""2 The Topography and Phenomenology of the Public Cemetery""; ""3 Naming the Dead: Casualty Lists and the Tenses of Commemoration""; ""4 Sacred Space and the Fallen Warrior""; ""5 Private Engagement with Civic Death: Portrait Statues, Votive Reliefs, and Wall Paintings"" 
505 8 |a ""6 More Than a Name:Â Private Commemoration in Attic Cemeteries""""7 The Limits of Commemoration""; "" Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""IndexLocorum""; ""General Index"" 
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