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Author Steinbock, Bernd.

Title Social memory in Athenian public discourse : uses and meanings of the past / Bernd Steinbock.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013].

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 411 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-376) and indexes.
Contents Introduction : Objectives, Methods, Concepts -- Objectives -- What Is Social Memory? -- Social memory in Ancient Greece : From Mythical Times to the Recent Past -- Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse -- Chapter 1. Carriers of Athenian Social Memory -- Festivals and Public Commemorations -- Different Memory Communities -- Monuments and Inscriptions -- Rhetorical Education -- Assembly and Law Courts -- Chapter 2. Athens' Counterimage : The Theban Medizers -- Fourth-Century Allusions to Thebes' Medizing -- Theban Conduct during the Persian War -- Athenian Disposition toward Thebes in 479 -- Memorialization of Thebes' Treason -- Remembering Theban Medism throughout the Fifth Century -- Contexts for the Recollection of Theban Medism in the Fourth Century -- Chapter 3. Mythical Precedent : Athenian Intervention for the Fallen Argives -- Oratorical Allusions to the Burial of the Seven -- Constitutive Elements and Formative Influences -- The Burial of the Seven in Diplomatic and Political Discourse -- Chapter 4. A Precarious Memory : Theban Help for the Athenian Democrats -- Belated Praise for Theban Aid? -- The Situation in Thebes in 404/3 -- Theban Support for Thrasybulus in Athenian Social Memory -- Chapter 5. Persistent Memories : The Proposed Eradication of Athens -- The Debate about Athens' Fate in 405/4 -- Fourth-Century Allusions to the Proposed Destruction of Athens -- Traumatic Fear of Annihilation -- Semantic and Visual Conceptualizations : City Razing and Enslavement -- Imagining the Unimaginable : The Eradication of Athens -- Plataea, Melos and Troy as Aide Memoire -- Contexts for the Recollection of the Theban Proposal -- Conclusion.
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Subject Athens (Greece) -- Relations -- Greece -- Thebes.
Thebes (Greece) -- Relations -- Greece -- Athens.
Thebes (Greece) -- Foreign public opinion.
Memory -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
Memory -- Social aspects.
Greece -- Athens.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Collective memory.
Memory.
Collective memory -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
Historiography -- Social aspects.
Historiography -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
Historiography.
Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
Greece.
Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
Athens (Greece) -- Social life and customs.
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
Chronological Term To 146 B.C
Subject International relations.
Manners and customs.
Politics and government.
Public opinion.
Greece -- Thebes.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
HISTORY -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Academic theses.
History.
Academic theses.
Other Form: Print version: Social memory in Athenian public discourse Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]. 9780472118328 (cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2012033643
ISBN 9780472028412 ebook
0472028413
9780472118328 cloth : acid-free paper
9780472028412 e-book
0472118323 (cloth)
9781283941655 (MyiLibrary)
1283941651
9780472118328 (cloth)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.1897162