The Treatment of the War Dead in Archaic Athens: An Ancestral Custom

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Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
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Acknowledgements
Notes to the Reader
Introduction The War Dead in Ancient Athens
	Sources and outline
Part One
	1 The Homeric War Dead
		Homeric society: Elite vs commoners
		Fighting over the dead
		Despoiling the dead
		Protecting the dead
		Common dead
		Mutilation of the dead
		Mutilation by animals
		Afterlife
	2 The War Dead in the Greek Mythological Tradition
		Early Greek mythology
		Battlefield truces: Seven Against Thebes
		Mutilation of the dead: Eurystheus’ decapitation
		Greeks vs Barbarians – The Persian Wars
Part Two
	3 The War Dead in the Early Greek Iconographic Tradition
		Archaic iconography of war
		The war dead in Archaic Athenian art
		Iconography of change?
	4 Archaic Monuments for the War Dead
		Elite burials
		The war dead and Archaic Greek warfare
	5 Ancestral Customs in the Classical City
		Towards public burials
		A patrios nomos
Part Three
	6 War, State and Society in Archaic Athens
		Early Athens
		Solon’s reforms
		Peisistratus’ tyranny
		Agricultural revolution?
		Cleisthenes and democracy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index