- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 199 p.) : ill.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 160
- Uniform Title
- Cultures of commemoration (Online)
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 160.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2013474786
- OCLC
- ssj0001107822
- Title
Cultures of commemoration [electronic resource] : war memorials, ancient and modern / edited by Polly Low, Graham Oliver & P.J. Rhodes.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Series
Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 160
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 160.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Low, Polly.
Oliver, G. J. (Graham John), 1966-
Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John)
British Academy.