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SUMMARY:Commemorating war dead in ancient Athens from Homer to Thucydides 
 - Dr Cezary Kucewicz (Faculty of History\, University of Gdańsk & Wolfson
  College)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:Bringing the war dead home for public burial was one of the mo
 st distinctive customs in ancient Athens\, famously enshrined by Thucydide
 s in his account of the Peloponnesian War. If a man died fighting for the 
 polis\, his body was to be recovered\, identified and brought home\, regar
 dless of geographical distance\, his social standing or military skill. Th
 e custom stood at the heart of Classical Athenian democracy and has since 
 been used as an archetypal paradigm for modern military forces. While the 
 public burial of the war dead in Classical Athens (c. 480–323 BC) has be
 en much discussed by scholars\, far less attention has been devoted to how
  the Athenians buried and commemorated their dead in the preceding Archaic
  era (c. 800–480 BC). In this talk\, Cezary will redress this imbalance 
 by providing an overview of his latest book\, "The Treatment of the War De
 ad in Archaic Athens: An Ancestral Custom" (Bloomsbury Academic 2020). Exp
 loring a variety of ancient sources\, including the Homeric poems\, depict
 ions of combat on vases\, and funerary monuments for fallen warriors\, Cez
 ary will discuss the unique significance of the war dead in the cultural i
 magination of the Athenians\, explaining why ancient modes of war commemor
 ation remain relevant to modern discussions about how we remember and comm
 emorate military conflict.\n\nRegister "here":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zo
 om.us/webinar/register/6616099379293/WN_AR3fINL_RjKjMHKrHWZIaw
LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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