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The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
The Invention of Athens The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
Author: Nicole Loraux
How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations--epitaphioi--from Thucidydes, Gorgias, Lysias, a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781890951597
ISBN-10: 1890951595
Publication Date: 3/10/2006
Pages: 545
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Publisher: Zone Books
Book Type: Paperback
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