CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Boeotia, Chabrias, Greco-Persian Wars
23 Feb 2017
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Relief from a casualty list of the corinthian war: 394/3 b. c. Part of commemoration set up for dead involved in military engagements during corinthian war. Two types of iconography (hoplites & soldiers on horseback) Avoid navel imagery as athenian conceived navel warfare as being dependent on regular training & required skill rather than innate virtue & courage. Athenians believed rowers acted as unit with little need for feats of individual valor. Athens" history of being a navel powerhouse contradicts the fact that navel imagery is not found- the reason being athenians consider everyone elite valiant hoplite or cavalrymen that engaged in intimate warfare. Greek reaction to the lists (pausanias" description of the kerameikos) Funeral orations (lysias" speech for those who assisted the corinthians) Including children, those who committed suicide, heroes & those who killed them, & those who were struck by lightning. Two groups of war dead received particularly special attention: Causalities of the battle of marathon (490 b. c.
