St Andrews Research Repository

View Item 
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  •   St Andrews Research Repository
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • View Item
  • Login
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Leadership and individuality in the Athenian funeral orations

View/Open
FuneralOrations2013.pdf (331.8Kb)
Date
06/2013
Author
Hesk, Jon
Keywords
Athens
Funeral oration
Leadership
Military
DF Greece
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
Athenian funeral orations did not simply celebrate Athenian military achievements or renew and augment a specifically anonymous collective identity and hoplite ideology. Rather, the speeches also model the role and importance of sub-groups within the democratic polis and celebrate some individual generals for their attributes and achievements as leaders. Furthermore, internal and contextual evidence shows that the prominent leaders who were chosen to deliver these speeches were often promoting or defending their own particular involvement and advocacy of the military campaign in question. This stress on the importance of the individual ‘voice’ of the orator and the speeches' inscription of exemplary individuals (probably, but by no means certainly, much more common from the 380s downwards) offers a significant contribution to literary and historical understanding of this genre and its cultural and ideological functioning.
Citation
Hesk , J 2013 , ' Leadership and individuality in the Athenian funeral orations ' Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies , vol 56 , no. 1 , pp. 49-65 . DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.00050.x
Publication
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.00050.x
ISSN
0076-0730
Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2013 Institute of Classical Studies University of London. This article was made open access through BIS funding.
Collections
  • University of St Andrews Research
  • Classics Research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3853

Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

Advanced Search

Browse

All of RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateNamesTitlesSubjectsClassificationTypeFunderThis CollectionBy Issue DateNamesTitlesSubjectsClassificationTypeFunder

My Account

Login

Open Access

To find out how you can benefit from open access to research, see our library web pages and Open Access blog. For open access help contact: openaccess@st-andrews.ac.uk.

How to submit research papers

The full text of research papers can be submitted to the repository via PURE, the University's research information system. For help see our guide: How to deposit in Pure.

Electronic thesis deposit

Help with deposit.

Repository help

For repository help contact: Digital-Repository@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Give Feedback

Cookie policy

This site may use cookies. Please see Terms and Conditions.

Usage statistics

COUNTER-compliant statistics on downloads from the repository are available from the IRUS-UK Service. Contact us for information.

© University of St Andrews Library

University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter