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Author Steinbock, Bernd

Title Social memory in Athenian public discourse : uses and meanings of the past / Bernd Steinbock
Published Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 411 pages) : illustrations, maps
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 -- Carriers of Athenian Social Memory. Festivals and Public Commemorations ; Different Memory Communities ; Monuments and Inscriptions ; Rhetorical Education ; Assembly and Law Courts -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
Summary Integrating literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence with scholarship on memory, identity, rhetoric, and international relations, this book enhances readers' understanding of both the function of memory in Athenian public discourse and the history of Athenian-Theban relations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-376) and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Memory -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
Collective memory -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
Historiography -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
Discourse analysis -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
HISTORY -- General.
Collective memory
Discourse analysis
Historiography -- Social aspects
International relations
Manners and customs
Memory -- Social aspects
Politics and government
Public opinion
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- Relations -- Greece -- Thebes
Thebes (Greece) -- Relations -- Greece -- Athens
Thebes (Greece) -- Foreign public opinion
Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government
Athens (Greece) -- Social life and customs
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057074
Subject Greece
Greece -- Athens
Greece -- Thebes
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
History
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020749669
ISBN 9780472028412
0472028413
9780472028412
0472118323
9781283941655
1283941651
9780472118328