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dc.contributor.authorMorley, N
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-02T15:58:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-11
dc.date.updated2024-02-02T15:28:09Z
dc.description.abstractPericles’ funeral oration has played a significant public role, especially in Anglophone countries, over the last century. Renaissance humanists had valued it simply as a masterful piece of oratory, to be studied for its literary qualities. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was seen primarily as a source of historical information about Athenian culture, with no present significance. The great change came in the early nineteenth century, when radical and liberal thinkers in Britain, for whom democracy was no longer a threat but a promise, focussed increasingly on the contents of the speech. Cultural achievement was, they argued, intimately bound up with the participation of the people in public life. For them, the proof was in Pericles’ praise of Athens and its institutions. Ancient and modern democracy were now elided, and the words of this funeral speech were thus made available for politicians seeking to celebrate their own societies, from the United States of America to the European Union. These readers of the funeral oration as a celebration of democracy almost entirely ignored the original context of the speech. Developments in modern warfare as well as the rise of the mass citizen army changed this.en_GB
dc.format.extent414-435
dc.identifier.citationIn: The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux, edited by David M. Pritchard. pp. 414-435en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781009413053.021
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/135233
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0003-0721-715X (Morley, Neville)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 11 July 2024 in compliance with publisher policyen_GB
dc.rights© 2024 Cambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.subjectPericlesen_GB
dc.subjectthe funeral orationen_GB
dc.subjectmodern democracyen_GB
dc.subjectGeorge Groteen_GB
dc.subjectthe First World Waren_GB
dc.subjectmodern warfareen_GB
dc.title'Freedom is the sure possession...': modern receptions of Pericles' funeral orationen_GB
dc.typeBook chapteren_GB
dc.date.available2024-02-02T15:58:58Z
dc.contributor.editorPritchard, D
dc.identifier.isbn9781009413053
exeter.place-of-publicationCambridge
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.relation.ispartofThe Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux
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