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      Antiquities: Postwar French Thought, Vol. 3

      Nicole Loraux

      This book contains the critical texts that embody the radical political transformation in both methodology and thematics in classics since 1945. Seminal texts by Gernet, Vernant and Vidal-Naquet and Detienne…

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      L'Invention d'Athenes: Histoire de l'Oraison Funebre Dans La Cite Classique

      Nicole Loraux

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      Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman

      Nicole Loraux

      In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet, exemplary existence as wife and mother. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence…

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      The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man

      Nicole Loraux

      Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek imaginary, revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the…

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      The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man

      Nicole Loraux

      Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek imaginary, revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the…

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      Mothers in Mourning

      Nicole Loraux

      This volume contains translations of the book Les meres en deuil and the essay De l'amnistie et de son contraire . In them, the author demonstrates how Athenian politics were…

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      The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City

      Nicole Loraux

      Traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations - epitaphioi - from Thucidydes, Gorgias, Lysias, and Demosthenes to Plato. Arguing that the ceremony of public burial began circa…

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      Mothers in Mourning

      Nicole Loraux

      This volume contains translations of the book Les meres en deuil and the essay De l'amnistie et de son contraire . In them, the author demonstrates how Athenian politics were…

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      The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens

      Nicole Loraux

      Athens, 403 BCE. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious, they renounce vengeance. This title argues that this moment…

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      The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens

      Nicole Loraux

      Provides an exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Not only does this book reconceptualise the definition of ancient Greek democracy, it also allows the contemporary…

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      The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas About Citizenship and the Division Between the Sexes

      Nicole Loraux

      This collection of essays examines the implications of Greek myths to explore how Athenians in the 5th century BC forged and maintained a collective identity. In particular, it reveals the…

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      The Athenian Funeral Oration

      A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important it was for maintaining Athenian self-identity. But her famous book left many…

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      The Mourning Voice: An Essay on Greek Tragedy

      Nicole Loraux (former Director of Studies, l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociale, Paris, France)

      In The Mourning Voice, Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon, infused…

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