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Tables of Contents for From Melos to My Lai
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of plates
ix
Preface and acknowledgments
xi
Introduction: a twentieth-century American odyssey
1
11
Listening to Thersites
12
22
Achilles and the heroic ideal
34
21
Clearchus' story: the heroic ideal transformed
55
24
Penelope and waiting wives and lovers
79
22
War, violence, and the Other
101
23
The historiography and language of violence
124
19
Remembrance, rhetoric, and memory
143
22
The visibly dead: monuments and their meaning
165
19
The unanchored dead: mental cases and walking wounded
184
15
Afterword
199
3
Bibliography
202
13
Index
215