The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicole Loraux, Alan Sheridan (Translator)Series:Mit PressAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2006-03-17Pages:544
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781890951597ISBN-10:1890951595UPC:9781890951597Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SC85F30GD0
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become an occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations from Thucidydes, Gorgias, Lysias, and Demosthenes to Plato.
This new edition of The Invention of Athens includes...Series: Mit Press
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781890951597ISBN-10:1890951595UPC:9781890951597Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SC85F30GD0
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