Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens

Acknowledgments

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S Completion of this project was made possible by a Loeb Faculty Grant, Harvard University, and by a Summer Research Grant, University of Wisconsin. Preliminary drafts were read at the meetings of the APA and CAMWS as well as at the University of Chicago, the University of Durham , Harvard University, and the University of Washington. I would like to thank the audiences for their comments and the members of each department for their gracious hospitality. I am also grateful to the late Arthur Adkins, Danielle Allen, Ed Carawan, David Cohen, Carolyn Higbie , Ian Morris, Greg Nagy, Josh Ober, Victoria Pagán, Peter Rhodes, Richard Saller, and Laura Slatkin for reading chapters from various versions of the manuscript and for their suggestions and criticisms. They are, of course, not responsible for any shortcomings of the final version. Thanks are also owed to Maura Burnett of the Johns Hopkins University Press for her care and attention in the preparation of the book. Part 1 began at the University of Wisconsin. Part 2 started as a dissertation project at the University of Chicago under the title ‘‘Rebuilding the Walls of Athens’’ and since then has undergone revision first in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then in Madison, Wisconsin. The main premise remains the same: The Athenians struggled to make sense of the painful years of civil war by selectively remembering the past. Unless otherwise noted, translations are adapted from the Loeb Classical Series. Finally, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my parents and my mother-in-law for all their support along the way, including proofing the preliminary manuscript. I can only repay them by o√ering the same encouragement to their grandson, Abraham Ricardo. This book is dedicated to Victoria, who has helped me with the project in every possible way, from beginning to end, and who knows more than anyone else why the topic has captured my attention for so long. This page intentionally left blank ...