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    PART ONE 0) aS PLP PLA POWERS OF THE VOICE AND EYE CHAPTER ONE @xe OY ASS Nakedness The Citizen’s Body in Perikles’ Athens 2431 86. a-war swept over the anciear world, picing the cites ‘of Athens and Sparta apsinat each other. Athens entered the Sar with supreme confidence and lft ie eenty-seven Years later in abysinal defeat. To Thucydides, the Athenian general who ‘wrote its history, the Pelopoanesian War appeared social a well Tina confice, a clash berween the milarzed life of Sparta and the open society of Athens, The values ofthe Athenian side Thucyd les porcayed in a Funeral Oration given inthe winter of 431430 Bee by Perkles, the leading ckzen of Athens, who commemorated arly casualties inthe war. How close the words Thucydides weote ‘were t0 thoee Perkles spoke we do not know; the speech has come to-seem in the course of time, however, mirror of is age. “The Funeral Oration sought "o eransmute the grief ofthe parents ito prides in the woods ofthe modern bseorian Nicole Loraux' “The bleached bones ofthe young dead had beea placed in coffins of 26> SKAMBONIDAD 85% kroaTHENAION rec ‘Onsuanon o ste RoUvTes mae) SBR Map of Athens, x 400 8 ‘ypress wood, drawn in «funeral cortege to 4 graveyard out beyond the walls ofthe city, followed by an enormous crowd of mourners; the cemetery would shelter the dead under umbrella pines whose needles had formed a dense cupet over ealer graves. Here Pores aid homage ro the fallen by praising the glories of thee city. "Power ‘sin the hands not of a miorty but of the whole people,” he declared, “everyone is equal before the lnw.”" In Greek, the word

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