Cultures of commemoration : war memorials, ancient and modern

Körperschaft: British Academy
Weitere Verfasser: Low, Polly
Oliver, G. J. (Graham John), 1966-
Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John)
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.
Umfang/Format: xii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Proceedings of the British Academy ; 160.
ISBN: 0197264662
9780197264669
ISSN: 0068-1202 ;
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 4 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Comparing cultures of commemoration in ancient and modern societies / Polly Low & Graham Oliver
  • The monuments to the war dead in classical Athens: form, contexts, meanings / Polly Low
  • The ritualized commemoration of war in the Hellenistic city: memory, identity, emotion / Angelos Chaniotis
  • Commemorating the war dead of the Roman world / Alison Cooley
  • Two Neoclassical monuments in modern France: the Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe / Avner Ben-Amos
  • Naming the dead, writing the individual: classical traditions and commemorative practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Graham Oliver
  • Cultural memory and the Great War: medievalism and classicism in British and German war memorials / Stefan Goebel
  • Monument to defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American culture and society / Lawrence A. Tritle.