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The ancient war's impact on the home front / edited by Lucia Cecchet, Christopher Degelmann and Maik Patzelt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society--Rome.
- War and society.
- War and society--Greece--History--To 1500.
- History.
- Greece.
- Rome (Empire).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 305 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- Contents:
- Preparing War at the Home Front
- Chapter 1 The Psychological Preparation for War: The Effects of the "Rhetoric of Visibility" on Military Training p. 23 / Anna Busetto
- Chapter 2 Declamation of War: The vir fortis and the Quest for Old Values and New Answers in Roman Imperial Declamation p. 45 / Stephanie Kirsch
- Rituals for the Home Front
- Chapter 3 Athens as a "Landscape of Trauma": Phrynichus' Sack of Miletus and the Aftermath of the Persian Wars p. 79 / Giorgia Proietti
- Chapter 4 A Small Part of You be brought Home in an Urn for Her to mourn: Commemorating the War Dead in the Roman Republic and the Early Empire p. 99 / Simon Lentzsch
- Chapter 5 Coping Prayers on the Home Front: The Case of Collective Supplications at Rome p. 125 / Maik Patzelt
- Chapter 6 "He Has Saved Us Without Wall, And Taught Us That He Is Our Wall": Eastern Roman Cities Under Divine Protection p. 147 / Christian Schönburg
- Soldiers and Civilians at the Home Front: cultural and Socio-Political Implications
- Chapter 7 "You Can Tell a Woman A Long Way Off By The Way She Throws": Women and War in Ancient Greece p. 173 / Jorit Wintjes
- Chapter 8 The Dark Side of War: War Wounded and Dissenters in the Athenian Theatre of the Late 5th Century p. 193 / Lucia Cecchet
- Chapter 9 The Demographic Impact of War on the Home Front during the Reign of Philip V of Macedon p. 217 / Michael Kleu
- Chapter 10 Reading Male Bodies: The Fate of a Veteran in Livy 2.23 p. 237 / Christopher Degelmann
- Chapter 11 Athens, the Ionians and the "Netting" of the Islands p. 261 / Emanuele Pulvirenti.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781527537767
- 1527537765
- OCLC:
- 1112424709
- Publisher Number:
- 99983467019
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