The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009413082
• ISBN13: 9781009413084
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 554 Pages
• Weight: 2.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"