The Athenian Funeral Oration

David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland, where he has chaired the Discipline of Classics and Ancient History. He has authored Athenian Democracy at War (Cambridge, 2019), Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens (2015) and Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2013), edited War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2010) and co-edited Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (2003). He has held fifteen fellowships in Australia, Europe and the US, most recently at l'Institut d'études avancées de Nantes, and speaks on radio and regularly writes for newspapers around the world.

'This is an interesting, useful and timely volume, featuring focused and well-grounded essays of consistently superior quality by some of the best contemporary Hellenists … As a monument to [Loraux's] pathbreaking work, as well as a critical advance on parts of it, the book should command real interest. It will also be a valuable reference resource for scholars and students of Greek history, literature and Classical reception.' Richard P. Martin, Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics, Stanford University

• List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Foreword by Paul Cartledge ; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The funeral oration after Loraux David M. Pritchard; Part I. Contexts: 2. The 'beautiful death' from Homer to democratic Athens Nicole Loraux (translated by David M. Pritchard); 3. Between ideology and the imaginary: the invention of The Invention of Athens Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard (translated by David M. Pritchard); 4. An imaginary with images: reconsidering the funeral oration and material culture Nathan T. Arrington; Part II. The Historical Speeches: 5. The epitaphios logos of Pericles: Thucydides' ambivalence towards the genre Bernd Steinbock; 6. Demosthenes after the defeat Leonhard Burckhardt (translated by Edith Foster and David M. Pritchard); 7. Originality and tradition in Hyperides' Funeral Oration Judson Herrman; Part III. The Literary Examples: 8. Gorgias' Funeral Oration Johannes Wienand; 9. Authorship and ideology in Lysias' Funeral Oration Alastair J. L. Blanshard; 10. Corrupting the youth in Plato's Menexenus Ryan K. Balot; 11. 'To gloat over our catastrophes': Isocrates on commemorating the war dead Thomas Blank; Part IV. Intertextuality: 12. Imagining Athens in the assembly Peter Hunt; 13. Fighting talk: war's human cost in drama and law-court speeches Jason Crowley; 14. Making Athens great again: tragedy and the funeral oration Sophie Mills; 15. Euripides' Erechtheus and the Athenian catalogue of exploits: how a tragic plot shaped the funeral oration Johanna Hanink; 16. 'Back then when the barbarian came': old comedy and the funeral oration Bernhard Zimmermann (translated by Edith Foster and David M. Pritchard); Part V. The Language of Democracy: 17. The funeral oration as a self-portrait of Athenian democracy Dominique Lenfant (translated by David M. Pritchard); 18. Sailors in the funeral oration and beyond David M. Pritchard; 19. 'Freedom is the sure possession': modern receptions of Pericles' Funeral Oration Neville Morley; References; General index; Index of sources