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

Informationen zum Autor Nicole Loraux (1943-2003) was the author of The Divided City! The Children of Athena! The Experiences of Tiresias! Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman! and Mothers in Mourning! among other titles. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become an occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens , Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations from Thucidydes, Gorgias, Lysias, and Demosthenes to Plato. This new edition of The Invention of Athens includes Loraux’s significant revisions undertaken in 1993 to render this groundbreaking work accessible to nonspecialists. Loraux’s introduction to this revised volume, as well as important revisions to the existent 1986 English translation, make this publication an important addition to scholarship in the humanities and the social sciences.

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Nicole Loraux
Translated by Alan Sheridan

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nicole Loraux, Nicole/ Sheridan Loraux, Nicole Loraux
• Mitarbeit: Alan Sheridan (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.03.2006
• EAN: 9781890951597
• ISBN: 978-1-890951-59-7
• Seiten: 539
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 222 mm x 38 mm
• Serien: Zone Books; The Invention of Athens; The MIT Press; The MIT Press; Zone Books
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte