The invention of Athens
the funeral oration in the classical city
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Author
Publication
1986 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
119,750 words, Guess
Page Count
479 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780674463622
- ISBN-100674463625
- Goodreads2013164
- Library of Congress Control Number86003081
- OCLC Control Number13184934
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780674463622
- Better World BooksP8-DJJ-745
- Open LibraryOL2710391M
Classifications
- DDC885/.01/09354
- LCCPA3264 .L6713 1986
- LCCPA3264.L6713 1986
Description
"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."--Jacket.
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