The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens

by Nicole Loraux

Book Overview

An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens.

Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for---if not invent---amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis. More precisely, what they agree to deny...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951099
• ISBN13: 9781890951092
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher