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

By Nicole Loraux

Book Overview

A revised edition of a groundbreaking work tracing the rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations in ancient Greece, arguing that they served to celebrate the city of Athens and the Athenian... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674463625
• ISBN13: 9780674463622
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.