{"title":"The \"Beautiful Death\" from Homer to Democratic Athens","authors":"N. Loraux, D. Pritchard","doi":"10.1353/ARE.2018.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"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 served as [masculine] norms.2 This should not be a surprise: the Iliad depicts a society at war and, in the","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"51 1","pages":"73 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ARE.2018.0003","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARETHUSA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ARE.2018.0003","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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 served as [masculine] norms.2 This should not be a surprise: the Iliad depicts a society at war and, in the
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Arethusa is known for publishing original literary and cultural studies of the ancient world and of the field of classics that combine contemporary theoretical perspectives with more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence. Interdisciplinary in nature, this distinguished journal often features special thematic issues.
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