From Melos to My Lai : war and survival / Lawrence A. Tritle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tritle, Lawrence A., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Greece--History.

Violence.

Violence--United States--History.

Violence--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction: a twentieth-century American odyssey; Listening to Thersites; Achilles and the heroic ideal; Clearchus' story: the heroic ideal transformed; Penelope and waiting wives and lovers; War, violence, and the Other; The historiography and language of violence; Remembrance, rhetoric, and memory; The visibly dead: monuments and their meaning; The unanchored dead: mental cases and walking wounded; Afterword; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-214) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-60364-9

0-429-23245-4

0-203-46248-3

0-203-25176-8

1-134-60365-7

1-280-04976-6

9780429232459

OCLC:

133162753