The Athenian Oration : After Nicole Loraux

by: Pritchard, D.M.

 The Athenian Funeral Oration
After Nicole Loraux
EDITOR: David M. Pritchard, University of Queensland
David M. Pritchard, Nicole Loraux, Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard, Nathan T. Arrington, Bernd Steinbock, Leonhard Burckhardt, Judson Herrman, Johannes Wienand, Alastair J. L. Blanshard, Ryan K. Balot, Thomas G. M. Blank, Peter Hunt, Jason Crowley, Sophie Mills, Johanna Hanink, Bernhard Zimmermann, Dominique Lenfant, Neville Morley

In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.

Eighteen specially commissioned essays develop and complete the groundbreaking work started by Nicole Loraux on Athenian funeral orations
Provides a thorough, systematic study of the seven surviving speeches and their historical significance in Athenian culture
Undertakes, for the first time, a comparison of the funeral oration with other literary genres

Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Foreword by Paul Cartledge
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. The funeral oration after Loraux David M. Pritchard
Part I. Contexts:
2. The 'beautiful death' from Homer to democratic Athens Nicole Loraux (translated by David M. Pritchard)
3. Between ideology and the imaginary: the invention of The Invention of Athens Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard (translated by David M. Pritchard)
4. An imaginary with images: reconsidering the funeral oration and material culture Nathan T. Arrington
Part II. The Historical Speeches:
5. The epitaphios logos of Pericles: Thucydides' ambivalence towards the genre Bernd Steinbock
6. Demosthenes after the defeat Leonhard Burckhardt (translated by Edith Foster and David M. Pritchard)
7. Originality and tradition in Hyperides' Funeral Oration Judson Herrman
Part III. The Literary Examples:
8. Gorgias' Funeral Oration Johannes Wienand
9. Authorship and ideology in Lysias' Funeral Oration Alastair J. L. Blanshard
10. Corrupting the youth in Plato's Menexenus Ryan K. Balot
11. 'To gloat over our catastrophes': Isocrates on commemorating the war dead Thomas Blank
Part IV. Intertextuality:
12. Imagining Athens in the assembly Peter Hunt
13. Fighting talk: war's human cost in drama and law-court speeches Jason Crowley
14. Making Athens great again: tragedy and the funeral oration Sophie Mills
15. Euripides' Erechtheus and the Athenian catalogue of exploits: how a tragic plot shaped the funeral oration Johanna Hanink
16. 'Back then when the barbarian came': old comedy and the funeral oration Bernhard Zimmermann (translated by Edith Foster and David M. Pritchard)
Part V. The Language of Democracy:
17. The funeral oration as a self-portrait of Athenian democracy Dominique Lenfant (translated by David M. Pritchard)
18. Sailors in the funeral oration and beyond David M. Pritchard
19. 'Freedom is the sure possession': modern receptions of Pericles' Funeral Oration Neville Morley
References
General index
Index of sources

The Athenian Oration : After Nicole Loraux

by: Pritchard, D.M.

• ISBN-13: 9781009413084 / 978-1-00-941308-4
• ISBN-03: 1009413082 / 1-00-941308-2
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024