The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens by Nicole Loraux

The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens

Zone Books

Nicole Loraux with Corinne Pache (Translator), Jeff Fort (Translator)

360 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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Athens, 403 BCE. The end of the bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty. The democrats return to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of amnesia, citizens call for -- if not invent -- amnesty. They agree to forget the unforget...

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