Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Objectives, Methods, Concepts -- Objectives -- What Is Social Memory? -- Social Memory in Ancient Greece: From Mythical Times to the Recent Past -- Social Memory in Athenian Public Discourse -- 1. Carriers of Athenian Social Memory -- Festivals and Public Commemorations -- Different Memory Communities -- Monuments and Inscriptions -- Rhetorical Education -- Assembly and Law Courts -- 2. Athens' Counterimage: The Theban Medizers -- Fourth-Century Allusions to Thebes' Medizing -- Theban Conduct during the Persian War -- Athenian Disposition toward Thebes in 479 -- Memorialization of Thebes' Treason -- Remembering Theban Medism throughout the Fifth Century -- Contexts for the Recollection of Theban Medism in the Fourth Century -- 3. Mythical Precedent: Athenian Intervention for the Fallen Argives -- Oratorical Allusions to the Burial of the Seven -- Constitutive Elements and Formative Influences -- The Burial of the Seven in Diplomatic and Political Discourse -- 4. A Precarious Memory: Theban Help for the Athenian Democrats -- Belated Praise for Theban Aid? -- The Situation in Thebes in 404/3 -- Theban Support for Thrasybulus in Athenian Social Memory -- 5. Persistent Memories: The Proposed Eradication of Athens -- The Debate about Athens' Fate in 405/4 -- Fourth-Century Allusions to the Proposed Destruction of Athens -- Traumatic Fear of Annihilation -- Semantic and Visual Conceptualizations: City Razing and Enslavement -- Imagining the Unimaginable: The Eradication of Athens -- Plataea, Melos, and Troy as Aide Mémoire -- Contexts for the Recollection of the Theban Proposal -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index.