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The Athenian Funeral Oration
After Nicole Loraux

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Editor: David M. Pritchard, University of Queensland

David M. Pritchard, Nicole Loraux, Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard, Nathan T. Arrington, Bernd Steinbock, Leonhard Burckhardt, Judson Herrman, Johannes Wienand, Alastair J. L. Blanshard, Ryan K. Balot, Thomas G. M. Blank, Peter Hunt, Jason Crowley, Sophie Mills, Johanna Hanink, Bernhard Zimmermann, Dominique Lenfant, Neville Morley

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Date Published: February 2024
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781009413084

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In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.
- Eighteen specially commissioned essays develop and complete the groundbreaking work started by Nicole Loraux on Athenian funeral orations
- Provides a thorough, systematic study of the seven surviving speeches and their historical significance in Athenian culture
- Undertakes, for the first time, a comparison of the funeral oration with other literary genres
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‘This is an interesting, useful and timely volume, featuring focused and well-grounded essays of consistently superior quality by some of the best contemporary Hellenists … As a monument to [Loraux’s] pathbreaking work, as well as a critical advance on parts of it, the book should command real interest. It will also be a valuable reference resource for scholars and students of Greek history, literature and Classical reception.’ Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics, Stanford University
‘This is a very high-quality volume … very well introduced and contextualised by its editor, whose opening chapter is very clear and very full on the contribution of Nicole Loraux and the Paris School to the study of ancient Greek life and thought, on her original intellectual context and on her influence … This new volume provides much that [The Invention of Athens] no longer can, yet still preserves its status as a landmark in the study of ancient Athenian ideology.’ Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics, The University of Edinburgh
‘The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux is destined to be the new reference work on this vitally important genre. Building on the significant advances in cultural history since the 1980s, it will be essential reading for all those interested in Athenian democracy, literature and warfare.’ Christophe Pébarthe, Associate Professor of Greek History, Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France)
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Product details
- Date Published: February 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009413084
- length: 554 pages
- dimensions: 250 x 175 x 36 mm
- weight: 1.09kg
- contains: 21 colour illus. 3 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Foreword by Paul Cartledge
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. The funeral oration after Loraux David M. Pritchard
Part I. Contexts:
2. The 'beautiful death' from Homer to democratic Athens Nicole Loraux (translated by David M. Pritchard)
3. Between ideology and the imaginary: the invention of The Invention of Athens Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard (translated by David M. Pritchard)
4. An imaginary with images: reconsidering the funeral oration and material culture Nathan T. Arrington
Part II. The Historical Speeches:
5. The epitaphios logos of Pericles: Thucydides' ambivalence towards the genre Bernd Steinbock
6. Demosthenes after the defeat Leonhard Burckhardt (translated by Edith Foster and David M. Pritchard)
7. Originality and tradition in Hyperides' Funeral Oration Judson Herrman
Part III. The Literary Examples:
8. Gorgias' Funeral Oration Johannes Wienand
9. Authorship and ideology in Lysias' Funeral Oration Alastair J. L. Blanshard
10. Corrupting the youth in Plato's Menexenus Ryan K. Balot
11. 'To gloat over our catastrophes': Isocrates on commemorating the war dead Thomas Blank
Part IV. Intertextuality:
12. Imagining Athens in the assembly Peter Hunt
13. Fighting talk: war's human cost in drama and law-court speeches Jason Crowley
14. Making Athens great again: tragedy and the funeral oration Sophie Mills
15. Euripides' Erechtheus and the Athenian catalogue of exploits: how a tragic plot shaped the funeral oration Johanna Hanink
16. 'Back then when the barbarian came': old comedy and the funeral oration Bernhard Zimmermann (translated by Edith Foster and David M. Pritchard)
Part V. The Language of Democracy:
17. The funeral oration as a self-portrait of Athenian democracy Dominique Lenfant (translated by David M. Pritchard)
18. Sailors in the funeral oration and beyond David M. Pritchard
19. 'Freedom is the sure possession': modern receptions of Pericles' Funeral Oration Neville Morley
References
General index
Index of sources
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Editor
David M. Pritchard, University of Queensland
David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland, where he has chaired the Discipline of Classics and Ancient History. He has authored Athenian Democracy at War (Cambridge, 2019), Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens (2015) and Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2013), edited War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2010) and co-edited Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (2003). He has held fifteen fellowships in Australia, Europe and the US, most recently at l'Institut d'études avancées de Nantes, and speaks on radio and regularly writes for newspapers around the world.
Foreword
Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge
Contributors
David M. Pritchard, Nicole Loraux, Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard, Nathan T. Arrington, Bernd Steinbock, Leonhard Burckhardt, Judson Herrman, Johannes Wienand, Alastair J. L. Blanshard, Ryan K. Balot, Thomas G. M. Blank, Peter Hunt, Jason Crowley, Sophie Mills, Johanna Hanink, Bernhard Zimmermann, Dominique Lenfant, Neville Morley