古今の戦死者追悼 Cultures of Commemoration : War Memorials, Ancient and Modern (Proceedings of the British Academy)

Rhodes, P.J./ Low, Polly (EDT)/ Oliver, Graham (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2012/05発売）

• ページ数 214 p.／サイズ 26 illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780197264669
• DDC分類 355.1609

基本説明

This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.

Full Description

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.

Contents

Preface ; Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies ; The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings ; Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World ; The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion ; Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe ; Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ; Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials ; Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society