The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City

by: Loraux, N.

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The invention of Athens : the funeral oration in the classical city

Author:Nicole Loraux

Summary:"In The Invention of Athens, her first book, Nicole Loraux launched her exploration of Greek - and more particularly Athenian - self-representations: in this case, through the funeral oration. Coordinating past, present, and future generations, the funeral oration emerges in Loraux's account as the state institution and genre through which official memory is performed, cultivated, and transmitted. In her anatomy of the institution and genre of the epitaphics, Loraux illuminates the politics, myths, and gendered discourses and institutions of Antiquity. Loraux shows us again and again how the field of representation, particularly as it emerges in a democratic terrain, is the field of contest. Loraux's work was always concerned with the politics of memory - What shall be remembered? And how? And by whom? And for whom? - the way in which the city represents itself, how it constitutes itself, how it remembers and members itself are among Loraux's central preoccupations, and she makes them ours."

539 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:
Introduction : a very Athenian invention
I. The funeral oration in the democratic city
II. The address to the dead and its destination
III. The Athenian history of Athens
IV. "As for the name ... it is called a democracy"
V. The funeral oration as political genre
VI. Under the spell of an ideal
Conclusion : imaginary Athens or the invention of the city

Subjects:
Athen historia forntiden
Athens (Greece) In literature
Athens (Greece) Intellectual life
Begravningstal historia Grekland antiken
City and town life in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Discours grecs Histoire et critique
Éloges funèbres Histoire et critique
Éloquence antique
Funeral orations
Funeral orations History and criticism
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Greece Athens
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies Histoire Jusqu'à 500 Grèce Athènes
Greece Athens
Intellectual life
Literature
Oratory, Ancient
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek History and criticism
Vie urbaine dans la littérature

The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City

by: Loraux, N.

• ISBN-13: 9781890951597 / 978-1-890951-59-7
• ISBN-03: 1890951595 / 1-890951-59-5
• Zone Books, New York, 2006

Price: 39,90 EURO

1 copy in stock