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Rhodes, P.J.

 
9780197264669: Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern: 160

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This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.

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Contenuti

  • P. J. Rhodes: Preface
  • Polly Low and Graham Oliver: Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies
  • Polly Low: The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings
  • Alison Cooley: Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World
  • Angelos Chaniotis: The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion
  • Avner Ben-Amos: Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe
  • Graham Oliver: Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • Stefan Goebel: Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials
  • Lawrence A. Tritle: Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society

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