id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_a4vcwr26hncp5kygo47tfl3oka Nicole Loraux The "Beautiful Death" from Homer to Democratic Athens 2018 18 .pdf application/pdf 7633 506 72 From Homer's Iliad to the Athenian funeral oration and beyond, the "beautiful death" was the name that the Greeks used to describe a combatant's made for speech on the beautiful death, because ceremonial practices in poet's or the orator's, formed the beautiful death by celebrating it. If more weight is given to andres, the more unusual reading, the funeral oration appears to be saying that an Athenian becomes a In the funeral oration, the spectacular death of the anēr agathos ("courageous man") separated him forever Athenian speech celebrated the citizens only in death. Athenian dead, the funeral oration promised agērōs epainos, that is, praise the funeral, the dead man's person is entirely linked to his sōma (Vernant 1991.59–60). double transfer had taken place: from the dead man to death, that is, from this Athenian beautiful death.23 of the death of Athenians merits the label "ideology of the city."29 To this, ./cache/work_a4vcwr26hncp5kygo47tfl3oka.pdf ./txt/work_a4vcwr26hncp5kygo47tfl3oka.txt