The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City by Nicole Loraux

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

Nicole Loraux

539 pages 1981

2 editions

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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, polit...

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