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539 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781890951597
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 17 March 2006
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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, politi...
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539 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781890951597
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 17 March 2006
Description
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, politi...