Our ancient wars : rethinking war through the classics / edited by Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caston, Victor, 1963-

Weineck, Silke-Maria, 1963-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (Philosophy).

War and civilization.

Greece--History, Military.

Greece.

History, Military.

Rome--History, Military.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer-present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing vital new perspectives on conflict in our own era. Our Ancient Wars features essays by top scholars from across academic disciplines- classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars, some with firsthand experience of war and some without-engaging with classical texts to understand how differently they were read in other times and places. Contributors articulate difficult but necessary questions about contemporary conceptions of war and conflict. Book jacket.

Contents:

Rethinking the ancient, in view of the modern

Genocide in archaic and classical Greece / Hans van Wees

Lysistrata and war's impact on the home front / Kurt A. Raaflaub

"War guilt," "national character," "inevitable forces," and the problematic historiography of "unnecessary wars" / David Potter

Socrates' military service / S. Sara Monoson

Rethinking the modern, in view of the ancient

Moral injury, damage, and repair / Nancy Sherman

War as education / Paul Woodruff

Deciding to go to war: who is responsible? / Arlene W. Saxonhouse

Combat trauma and the tragic stage: ancient culture and modern catharsis / Peter Meineck

Other moderns, other ancients

War, what is it good for in Homer's Iliad and four receptions? / Seth L. Schein

Modern Achilles: the beauty of war and the battle of the sexes / Susanne Gödde

"I am Spartacus": ancient war and slavery in the movies / Page Dubois

Epilogue: distances / Silke-Maria Weineck.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472072989

9780472052981

9780472121595

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.7652595

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