After the crisis : remembrance, re-anchoring & recovery in ancient Greece and Rome / Inger N. I. Kuin and Jacqueline Klooster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuin, Inger N. I., author.

Series:

Classical Studies & Archaeology 2020

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crises--Greece--History--To 1500.

Crises.

Crises--Rome.

Memory--Greece--History--To 1500.

Memory.

Memory--Rome--History--To 1500.

Greece--Social conditions--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Rome--Social conditions.

Rome.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the 'normality' against which they are defined and framed? People living in post-crisis societies have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by whom. Due to the reduced possibility of using the immediate past, which is tainted by conflict and bad memories, it may involve revisions of historical narratives about communal pasts and identities, through the selection of new 'anchors', and sometimes even a discarding of the old ones. Crises affect all areas of life, and crisis recovery likewise spans different spheres. This volume finds traces of such recovery strategies in texts as well as visual representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; in official ideology as much as in subaltern responses. The contributors bring together the diverse testimonies for such ways of coping that have survived from antiquity."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Part I: Crisis: Concepts and Ideology

1) Introduction: What is a Crisis? Framing versus Experience Jacqueline Klooster (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Inger Kuin (Dartmouth College, USA)

2) (Not) talkin' bout a revolution: Managing constitutional crisis in Athenian political thought Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge, UK)

3) Security: calming the soul political in the wake of civil war Michèle Lowrie (University of Chicago, USA)

Part II: Crisis Traumas and Recovery: Greece

4) Tragedies of War in Duris and Phylarchus: social memory and experiential history Lisa Hau (Glasgow University, UK)

5) Changes of Fortune:

Polybius and the Transformation of Greece Andrew Erskine (Edinburgh University, UK)

Part III: Crisis Traumas and Recovery: Rome

6) Coping With Crisis: Sulla's Civil War and Roman Cultural Identity Alexandra Eckert (Oldenburg University, Germany)

7) Alternative Futures in Lucan's Bellum Civile: Imagining Aftermaths of Civil War Annemarie Amb©ơhl (Mainz University, Germany)

Part IV: Resolving Civil War

8) Caesar and the Crisis of Corfinium Luca Grillo (University of North Carolina, USA)

9) Young Caesar and the Termination of Civil War (31-27 BCE) Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg University, Denmark)

10) Agrippa's odd Speech in Cassius Dio's Roman History Mathieu de Bakker (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Part IV: Civil War and the Family

11) The Fate of the Lepidani: Civil War and Family History in First Century BCE Rome Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University, USA)

12) The Roman Family as Institution and Metaphor After the Civil Wars Andrew Gallia (University of Minnesota, USA)

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350128583

OCLC:

1166372334

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.