Cultures of commemoration : war memorials, ancient and modern / edited by Polly Low, Graham Oliver & P.J. Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Low, Polly.

Oliver, G. J. (Graham John), 1966-

Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John)

British Academy.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 160.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 160

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War memorials.

War memorials--History.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

Contents:

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 Panthéon 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780197264669

0197264662

OCLC:

794294656