...This penultimate chapter deals with the remembrance and recasting of the Amnesty in the fourth century bc. The funeral oration for the city’s war dead (epitaphios, as illustrated in Lysias 2) was a major source of patriotic revision, simplifying the complicated history...

... Aristotle Herodotus Hyperides Loraux Nicole materiality consciousness and Citizen Athens (ancient) Plato Aristotle Epitaphios logos The tragedies, then, mark the rise of a new sort of person, one defined not by his or her place within a familial structure but in relation to a larger notion of civic...

... to apply writing to the description of the past. Every element of the fifth-century memory landscape (Herodotus, oral history, local historians, historical poetry, epitaphios logos) plays a precise role in forging Thucydides’ view and practice of history, and forces him to find his place...

...This chapter focuses on the polis, and considers the value placed on its past, the importance of the proper telling of history, and its use in inter-polis diplomacy. It examines not only the comic theatre and public occasions such as the epitaphios...

...0 01 07 1999 Whether or not a precise date for the earliest epitaphios can be established,1 it is clear that this main sub-genre of ceremonial or epideictic oratory was already formalized and its contents were determined even before the beginnings of Sicilian rhetoric. rhetoric epideictic...

...Chapter 30 examines Demosthenes’ Funeral Oration (Epitaphios), Erotikos or Erotic Essay, prologues (prooimia) or rhetorical openings of political speeches, and six letters—works that have often been relegated...