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Author Arrington, Nathan T., author.

Title Ashes, images, and memories : the presence of the war dead in fifth-century Athens / Nathan T. Arrington.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction: "to see them so changed would be their death" -- Mass ashes: the origins and impact of an "ancestral custom" -- Topography and phenomenology of the public cemetery -- Naming the death: casualty lists and the tenses of commemoration -- Sacred space and the fallen warrior -- Private engamgent with civic death: portrait statues, votive reliefs, and wall painting -- More than a name: private commemoration in attic cememteries -- Limits of commemoration -- Conclusion.
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Subject Peloponnesian War (Greece : 431-404 B.C.)
Persian Wars (Greece : 500-449 B.C.)
War and society -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
War and society.
Greece -- Athens.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Battle casualties -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
Battle casualties.
Burial -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
War memorials -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
War memorials.
Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
Athens (Greece) -- History, Military.
Genre/Form History.
Military history.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Arrington, Nathan T. Ashes, images, and memories 9780199369072 (DLC) 2013043540 (OCoLC)870210845
ISBN 9780199369089 (electronic book)
0199369089 (electronic book)
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