Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
Preface,
P. J. RhodesComparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies, Polly Low and Graham Oliver
The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings, Polly Low
Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World, Alison Cooley
The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion, Angelos Chaniotis
Two Neo-Classical 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