Cultures of Commemoration War Memorials, Ancient and Modern

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.

List of contents

• Preface


• Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies


• The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings


• Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World


• The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion


• Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe


• Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


• Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials


• Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society

Summary

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.

Product details

• Authors: Polly Low, Polly (EDT) Low, Graham Oliver, P. J. Rhodes, P.J. Rhodes
• Assisted by: Polly Low (Editor), Low Polly (Editor), Graham Oliver (Editor), Oliver Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9780197264669
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726466-9
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca; Proceedings of the British Academy; Proceedings of the British Aca
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation