International conference - The Athenian Funeral Oration: 40 Years after Nicole Loraux
British soldiers admire the Erechtheum on the Acropolis in Athens during October 1944. London, Imperial War Museum, neg. no. TR 2516. Photographer: Captain A. R. Tanner. © The Imperial War Museum
CONVENOR : David M. Pritchard (The University of Queensland, Australia / University of Strasbourg, France)
This international conference is taking place at the University of Strasbourg from 9 to 11 July 2018. English-, French- and German-speakers often read Pericles’s famous funeral oration at school or university. Once a year, in democratic Athens, such an oration was delivered in honour of the war dead. For the Athenians it was a vitally important speech, because it reminded them who they were as a people and why they had sacrificed their sons in war. This conference aims to undertake the most thorough study of this genre in 40 years. The resulting book will be published by Cambridge University Press.
