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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weineck, Silke-Maria, 1963-

Caston, Victor, 1963-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (Philosophy).

War and civilization.

Greece--History, Military.

Greece.

Rome--History, Military.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

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.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-12159-6

OCLC:

938557069

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.7652595