Cultures of commemoration : war memorials, ancient and modern
| Körperschaft: |
British Academy.
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Low, Polly.
Oliver, G. J. 1966- Rhodes, P. J. |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford ; New York :
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xii, 199 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Proceedings of the British Academy ;
160. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| 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.
