Table of Contents

P. J. Rhodes: Preface
Polly Low and Graham Oliver: Comparing Cultures of Commemoration in Ancient and Modern Societies
Polly Low: The Monuments ot the War Dead in Classical Athens: Forms, Contexts, Meanings
Alison Cooley: Commemorating the War Dead of the Roman World
Angelos Chaniotis: The Ritualised Commemoration of War in the Hellenistic City: Memory, Identity, Emotion
Avner Ben-Amos: Two Neo-Classical Monuments in Modern France: The Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe
Graham Oliver: Naming the Dead, Writing the Individual: Classical Traditions and Commemorative Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Stefan Goebel: Cultural Memory and the Great War: Medievalism and Classicism in British and German War Memorials
Lawrence A. Tritle: Monument to Defeat: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society