{"product_id":"linvention-dathenes","title":"The invention of Athens. ","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv id=\"accroche\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Originally published in 1981, this classic revisits the history of the funeral oration, a genre of eloquence that the Athenians promoted from the 460s BC, and is enriched with an introduction by Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard which will situate its contribution to history and its legacy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv id=\"notice\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Who invented Athens as the name of the Greek city? Answer: Athens. It should be added that this invention may have taken place in a cemetery in the 5th \u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecentury.\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e before our era. To the citizens who fell in combat, these elite dead, the community\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The Athenian woman offers a public funeral and a speech; the earth covers the bones, the funeral oration speaks to the living, exalting the city for the benefit of the citizens, the Greeks, and posterity. And this is how Athens, everyone can see, whether they are happy or angry, has, for a long historical tradition, become the City.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the topos of the “beautiful death,” that of the citizen-soldier, time stands still.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Men die, glory is theirs because the city remains, source of all\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e memory, of all value. Athens gains a noble essence, but it loses a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e language to express democracy, this novelty of which discourse makes an origin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e immemorial, this audacious regime presented in the funeral oration as a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e aristocracy of merit. Enough to call into question the well-established idea that\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Greeks would have ignored what we call the dominant ideology.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Antinoë","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43624100430064,"sku":"26010","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/4043\/6408\/products\/912580d39c.gif?v=1667571956","url":"https:\/\/anttopinoe.com\/en-en\/products\/linvention-dathenes","provider":"Antinoë","version":"1.0","type":"link"}