David M Pritchard
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2809564 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David M Pritchard |
| PRENOMES | David M |
| SOBRENOME | Pritchard |
| ASSINATURA | PRITCHARD D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Funeral Oration as a Self-Portrait of Athenian Democracy
Nicole Loraux saw the genre of the funeral oration as ‘the spokesman of official ideology’ and even as ‘the only developed discourse that the Athenian city officially had on democracy’. Nevertheless, the funeral oration was not the only public treatment of democracy. Indeed, Athens was the only ancient Greek state in which citizens produced representations of their own regime and did so in a variety of literary genres. This chapter begins by cons…
The Athenian Funeral Oration
In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from comple…
The Funeral Oration after Loraux
The Invention of Athens by Nicole Loraux was the first book-length study of the Athenian funeral oration. Before its publication, ancient historians had accorded little importance to this genre. Loraux established for the first time the vital importance of this almost annual speech in the formation of Athenian self-identity. She showed how each staging of it helped the Athenians to maintain the same civic identity for over a century. Yet, in spit…
‘Back Then When the Barbarians Came’
A striking feature of old comedy is its cannibalising of contemporaneous Athenian literature. The comic poets integrated the funeral oration into their comedies in three ways. Their first way was to bring on stage the funeral oration’s ancestors. Aristophanes characterised his choruses as such in three of his surviving plays. When these ancestors came to praise their own military exploits, they used the same terms as the funeral speeches and priv…
The ‘Beautiful Death’ from Homer to Democratic Athens
From Homer’s Iliad to the Athenian funeral oration and beyond, the ‘beautiful death’ was the name that the Greeks used to describe a combatant’s death. From the world of Achilles to democratic Athens, the warrior’s death was a model that concentrated the representations and the values that served as masculine norms. This should not be a surprise: the Iliad depicts a society at war and, in the Achaean camp at least, a society of men, without child…
Sailors in the Funeral Oration and Beyond
Ancient historians regularly argue that the classical Athenians held sailors in much lower esteem than hoplites. They cite in support of this the extant funeral speech of Pericles. Certainly, this famous speech said a lot about courageous hoplites but next to nothing about sailors. Yet, it is also clear that this was not a typical example of the genre. Funeral speeches usually gave a fulsome account of Athenian military history. In rehearsing mil…
Demosthenes after the Defeat
There are two reasons why the funeral speech of Demosthenes has largely been ignored by ancient historians. The first reason is that it has always been judged as less important than the great funeral speeches of Pericles, Lysias and Hyperides. The second is that many ancient historians have thought it unworthy of Demosthenes in terms of content and style. The lack of sustained research on this funeral speech is thus unsurprising. This speech, how…
Athenian Funeral Oration
Honouring the War Dead in Democratic Athens
Armed Forces
This chapter studies the four branches of the Athenian armed forces. For each branch, it discusses the legal and social positions of branch members, the means by which they were recruited and called up, and the history and the organization of their branch.
Athenian Democracy at War
Classical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today. These achievements are rightly revered. Less well known is the other side of this success story. Democratic Athens completely transformed warfare and became a superpower. The Athenian armed forces were unmatched in size and professionalism. This book explores the major reasons behind this military success. It shows how democracy helped the A…
The Standing of Sailors in Democratic Athens
Dans l’Athènes démocratique, les marins étaient tout aussi importants culturellement que les hoplites. En effet, il était clair pour le dèmos que son État était une importante puissance maritime. Athènes était consciente qu’il était crucial de préserver ses forces navales, puisqu’elle menait avant tout ses combats en mer. Pour le peuple, combattre en tant que marin profitait autant à l’État que le faire en tant qu’hoplite, et les Athéniens n’appa…
The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens
The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens Nicole Loraux Translated by David M. Pritchard 1. INTRODUCTION From Homer's Iliad to the Athenian funeral oration and beyond, the "beautiful death" was the name that the Greeks used to describe a combatant's death.1 From the world of Achilles to democratic Athens, in the fifth and fourth centuries bc, the warrior's death was a model that concentrated the representations and the values that ser…
Esporte e guerra na Atenas democrática
Este artigo considera o problema negligenciado do esporte de elite na Atenas Clássica. A democracia ateniense pode ter aberto a política a todos os cidadãos, mas não teve impacto na participação esportiva. Os esportistas desse Estado antigo continuaram a ser recrutados da elite. Portanto, é uma surpresa que os cidadãos que não pertenciam à elite considerassem o esporte como algo positivo e que tenham criado um programa inigualável de festivais es…
Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens
In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and "the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians." This view of the Athenians' misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh's 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], wh…
Deporte y democracia en la Atenas clásica
En la Grecia de época clásica, la institución de la democracia en Atenas permitió que todos sus ciudadanos pudieran acceder a la política, pero el atletismo sólo era practicado por la élite de la sociedad. Este artículo pretende estudiar la relación entre la democracia y la práctica deportiva en Atenas, buscando y analizando las razones por las que la clase inferior valorase muy positivamente y apoyara los juegos atléticos mediante políticas favo…
Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens
Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participation in sport. The city's sportsmen continued to be drawn from the elite, and so it comes as a surprise that sport was very popular with non-elite citizens of the classical period, who rewarded victorious sportsmen lavishly and created an unrivalled program of local sporting festivals on which they spent staggering sums of money. They also shielded s…
Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens
This essay concerns the paradox of athletics in classical Athens. Democracy may have opened up politics to every class of Athenian but it had little impact on sporting participation. The city's athletes continued to be drawn predominantly from the upper class. It comes as a surprise then that lower-class Athenians actually esteemed athletes above every other group in the public eye, honoured them very generously when they won, and directed a grea…
The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens
The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens Nicole Loraux Translated by David M. Pritchard 1. INTRODUCTION From Homer's Iliad to the Athenian funeral oration and beyond, the "beautiful death" was the name that the Greeks used to describe a combatant's death.1 From the world of Achilles to democratic Athens, in the fifth and fourth centuries bc, the warrior's death was a model that concentrated the representations and the values that ser…
The Standing of Sailors in Democratic Athens
Dans l’Athènes démocratique, les marins étaient tout aussi importants culturellement que les hoplites. En effet, il était clair pour le dèmos que son État était une importante puissance maritime. Athènes était consciente qu’il était crucial de préserver ses forces navales, puisqu’elle menait avant tout ses combats en mer. Pour le peuple, combattre en tant que marin profitait autant à l’État que le faire en tant qu’hoplite, et les Athéniens n’appa…
Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens
This essay concerns the paradox of athletics in classical Athens. Democracy may have opened up politics to every class of Athenian but it had little impact on sporting participation. The city's athletes continued to be drawn predominantly from the upper class. It comes as a surprise then that lower-class Athenians actually esteemed athletes above every other group in the public eye, honoured them very generously when they won, and directed a grea…
Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens
This essay concerns the paradox of athletics in classical Athens. Democracy may have opened up politics to every class of Athenian but it had little impact on sporting participation. The city's athletes continued to be drawn predominantly from the upper class. It comes as a surprise then that lower-class Athenians actually esteemed athletes above every other group in the public eye, honoured them very generously when they won, and directed a grea…
Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens
Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participation in sport. The city's sportsmen continued to be drawn from the elite, and so it comes as a surprise that sport was very popular with non-elite citizens of the classical period, who rewarded victorious sportsmen lavishly and created an unrivalled program of local sporting festivals on which they spent staggering sums of money. They also shielded s…
Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens
In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and "the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians." This view of the Athenians' misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh's 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], wh…
Deporte y democracia en la Atenas clásica
En la Grecia de época clásica, la institución de la democracia en Atenas permitió que todos sus ciudadanos pudieran acceder a la política, pero el atletismo sólo era practicado por la élite de la sociedad. Este artículo pretende estudiar la relación entre la democracia y la práctica deportiva en Atenas, buscando y analizando las razones por las que la clase inferior valorase muy positivamente y apoyara los juegos atléticos mediante políticas favo…
Esporte e guerra na Atenas democrática
Este artigo considera o problema negligenciado do esporte de elite na Atenas Clássica. A democracia ateniense pode ter aberto a política a todos os cidadãos, mas não teve impacto na participação esportiva. Os esportistas desse Estado antigo continuaram a ser recrutados da elite. Portanto, é uma surpresa que os cidadãos que não pertenciam à elite considerassem o esporte como algo positivo e que tenham criado um programa inigualável de festivais es…
Athenian Democracy at War
Classical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today. These achievements are rightly revered. Less well known is the other side of this success story. Democratic Athens completely transformed warfare and became a superpower. The Athenian armed forces were unmatched in size and professionalism. This book explores the major reasons behind this military success. It shows how democracy helped the A…
The Standing of Sailors in Democratic Athens
Dans l’Athènes démocratique, les marins étaient tout aussi importants culturellement que les hoplites. En effet, il était clair pour le dèmos que son État était une importante puissance maritime. Athènes était consciente qu’il était crucial de préserver ses forces navales, puisqu’elle menait avant tout ses combats en mer. Pour le peuple, combattre en tant que marin profitait autant à l’État que le faire en tant qu’hoplite, et les Athéniens n’appa…
The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens
The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens Nicole Loraux Translated by David M. Pritchard 1. INTRODUCTION From Homer's Iliad to the Athenian funeral oration and beyond, the "beautiful death" was the name that the Greeks used to describe a combatant's death.1 From the world of Achilles to democratic Athens, in the fifth and fourth centuries bc, the warrior's death was a model that concentrated the representations and the values that ser…
Armed Forces
This chapter studies the four branches of the Athenian armed forces. For each branch, it discusses the legal and social positions of branch members, the means by which they were recruited and called up, and the history and the organization of their branch.
Honouring the War Dead in Democratic Athens
The Funeral Oration as a Self-Portrait of Athenian Democracy
Nicole Loraux saw the genre of the funeral oration as ‘the spokesman of official ideology’ and even as ‘the only developed discourse that the Athenian city officially had on democracy’. Nevertheless, the funeral oration was not the only public treatment of democracy. Indeed, Athens was the only ancient Greek state in which citizens produced representations of their own regime and did so in a variety of literary genres. This chapter begins by cons…
The Athenian Funeral Oration
In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from comple…
The Funeral Oration after Loraux
The Invention of Athens by Nicole Loraux was the first book-length study of the Athenian funeral oration. Before its publication, ancient historians had accorded little importance to this genre. Loraux established for the first time the vital importance of this almost annual speech in the formation of Athenian self-identity. She showed how each staging of it helped the Athenians to maintain the same civic identity for over a century. Yet, in spit…
‘Back Then When the Barbarians Came’
A striking feature of old comedy is its cannibalising of contemporaneous Athenian literature. The comic poets integrated the funeral oration into their comedies in three ways. Their first way was to bring on stage the funeral oration’s ancestors. Aristophanes characterised his choruses as such in three of his surviving plays. When these ancestors came to praise their own military exploits, they used the same terms as the funeral speeches and priv…
The ‘Beautiful Death’ from Homer to Democratic Athens
From Homer’s Iliad to the Athenian funeral oration and beyond, the ‘beautiful death’ was the name that the Greeks used to describe a combatant’s death. From the world of Achilles to democratic Athens, the warrior’s death was a model that concentrated the representations and the values that served as masculine norms. This should not be a surprise: the Iliad depicts a society at war and, in the Achaean camp at least, a society of men, without child…
Sailors in the Funeral Oration and Beyond
Ancient historians regularly argue that the classical Athenians held sailors in much lower esteem than hoplites. They cite in support of this the extant funeral speech of Pericles. Certainly, this famous speech said a lot about courageous hoplites but next to nothing about sailors. Yet, it is also clear that this was not a typical example of the genre. Funeral speeches usually gave a fulsome account of Athenian military history. In rehearsing mil…
Demosthenes after the Defeat
There are two reasons why the funeral speech of Demosthenes has largely been ignored by ancient historians. The first reason is that it has always been judged as less important than the great funeral speeches of Pericles, Lysias and Hyperides. The second is that many ancient historians have thought it unworthy of Demosthenes in terms of content and style. The lack of sustained research on this funeral speech is thus unsurprising. This speech, how…
Athenian Funeral Oration
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