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

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nFigures\nAcknowledgements\nNotes to the Reader\nIntroduction The War Dead in Ancient Athens\n	Sources and outline\nPart One\n	1 The Homeric War Dead\n		Homeric society: Elite vs commoners\n		Fighting over the dead\n		Despoiling the dead\n		Protecting the dead\n		Common dead\n		Mutilation of the dead\n		Mutilation by animals\n		Afterlife\n	2 The War Dead in the Greek Mythological Tradition\n		Early Greek mythology\n		Battlefield truces: Seven Against Thebes\n		Mutilation of the dead: Eurystheus’ decapitation\n		Greeks vs Barbarians – The Persian Wars\nPart Two\n	3 The War Dead in the Early Greek Iconographic Tradition\n		Archaic iconography of war\n		The war dead in Archaic Athenian art\n		Iconography of change?\n	4 Archaic Monuments for the War Dead\n		Elite burials\n		The war dead and Archaic Greek warfare\n	5 Ancestral Customs in the Classical City\n		Towards public burials\n		A patrios nomos\nPart Three\n	6 War, State and Society in Archaic Athens\n		Early Athens\n		Solon’s reforms\n		Peisistratus’ tyranny\n		Agricultural revolution?\n		Cleisthenes and democracy\nConclusion\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex