Ashes, images, and memories : the presence of the war dead in fifth-century Athens / Nathan T. Arrington.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

x, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Introduction: "to see them so changed would be their death" -- Mass ashes: the origins and impact of an "ancestral custom" -- The topography and phenomenology of the public cemetery -- Naming the death: casualty lists and the tenses of commemoration -- Sacred space and the fallen warrior -- Private engamgent with civic death: portrait statues, votive reliefs, and wall painting -- More than a name: private commemoration in attic cememteries -- The limits of commemoration -- Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.