We were excited to welcome Julia L. Shear for an Open House entitled “Lysias, his Funeral Oration, and Collective Memories in Classical Athens.” The event took place on Friday, March 5 at 11:00 a.m. EST and was recorded.
To get ready for the event, you might like to read:
Lysias 2, the Funeral Oration
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War 2.34, description of the burial of the war-dead.
You can watch on our YouTube channel, or in the frame below.
Mentioned during the discussion:
- Demonsthenes Funeral Speech
Available online at Perseus - Julia L. Shear. 2013. “‘Their memories will never grow old’: the politics of remembrance in the Athenian funeral ,” Classical Quarterly 63 (2013), pp. 511–536. Copyright: Cambridge University Press for the Classical Association.
Available online at academia.edu - James E. Young. 1994. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. Yale University Press.
- Paul Connerton. 1989 (print), 2010 (online). How Societies Remember. Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628061
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Julia L. Shear
Julia L. Shear is currently a CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University and a Senior Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; previously she held a NEH Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and positions at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2011), which was short-listed for the Runciman Award in 2012, and Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (Cambridge, 2021). She is currently working on a book on creating collective memory in ancient Athens. She has excavated extensively on various sites in Greece, Cyprus, and Italy.