[Usyd_Classics_Events] Final CAH Research Seminar for 2023: This Thursday, David Pritchard

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History,

We are happy to invite you to our final Classics and Ancient History/CCANESA research seminar for Semester 2, 2023.

Thursday, November 2nd at 4pm (AEDT/UTC+11)

David Pritchard (University of Queensland/ IEA Nantes).

The Funeral Oration after Nicole Loraux

Abstract:
A funeral speech was delivered almost every year for classical Athenians who had died in war. Forty years ago, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of the funeral oration. Her Invention of Athens showed how important this genre was for reminding the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux proved how each staging of this speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for over a century. Nevertheless, The Invention of Athens was also far from a complete work. Loraux played down authorship as an object of study. Certainly, this made it easier for her to prove that the surviving funeral speeches were part of a long-stable tradition. But it also meant unfortunately that The Invention of Athens generally ignored the important questions about each of them. The funeral oration articulated a striking cultural militarism: it claimed that the Athenians almost always won their wars, from which they reaped large benefits. The Invention of Athens never compared this speech with the other literary genres that Athenian democracy sponsored. Therefore, Loraux was unable to show whether other genres ever counterbalanced the funeral oration’s cultural militarism. I have directed a large project to complete systematically The Invention of Athens. Project-members first met in Strasbourg in 2018. We had a second meeting in Lyon in 2020. Cambridge University Press will soon publish our edited volume of 19 chapters. The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux answers the important questions that Loraux ignored and completes the intertextual analysis that is simply missing in The Invention of Athens. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux ever thought.

Presenter biography
David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Queensland (Australia).

Please register for this free online presentation (if you have not already registered for the series):
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The Zoom meeting details for this seminar are:
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Papers this semester will be presented on campus live streamed via Zoom (unless otherwise indicated). The on-campus location is the CCANESA Boardroom, Level 4, Madsen Building.
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We look forward to seeing you as we bring our research community together for the final time this year!
For any further information or questions, please contact the Classics & Ancient History Seminar Coordinator, Dr. Ben Brown at benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au<mailto:benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au> or CCANESA at ccanesa.general at sydney.edu.au<mailto:ccanesa.general at sydney.edu.au>.
All best, Ben


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