From Melos to My Lai: A Study in Violence, Culture and Social Survival

by Lawrence A. Tritle

Overview

From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War. This comparative investigation examines the nature of violence, its impact on society and culture, especially as reflected from th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134603640
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/30/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lawrence A. Tritle

Table of Contents

1. A Twentieth Century American Odyssey 2. Listening to Theristes 3. Achilles and the Heroic Ideal 4. Clearchus' Story: The Heroic Ideal Transformed 5. Penelope and Waiting Wives and Lovers 6. War, Violence, and the 'Other' 7. The Historiography and Language of Violence 8. Rhetoric, Remembrance and Memory 9. The Visibly Dead: Monuments and Their Meaning 10. The Unanchored Dead: Mental Cases and Walking Wounded