From Melos to My Lai

1. A Twentieth Century American Odyssey 2. Listening to Theristes 3. Achilles and the Heroic Ideal 4. Clearchus' Story: The Heroic Ideal Transformed 5. Penelope and Waiting Wives and Lovers 6. War, Violence, and the 'Other' 7. The Historiography and Language of Violence 8. Rhetoric, Remembrance and Memory 9. The Visibly Dead: Monuments and Their Meaning 10. The Unanchored Dead: Mental Cases and Walking Wounded

Active listening · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Historiography · Ideal (ethics · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Rhetoric · Communication · History · Irish and British Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology