The body of the combatant in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Hannah-Marie Chidwick.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Chidwick, Hannah-Marie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Military history, Ancient.,.
• Mediterranean Region--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This volume explores a broad range of perceptions, receptions and constructions of the soldierly body in the ancient world, putting the notion of embodiment at the forefront of its engagement with ancient warfare. The 10 chapters presented here respond directly to the question of how war was embodied in antiquity by drawing on detailed case studies to examine the sensory and bodily experience of combat across wide-ranging time periods and geographies, from classical Greece and Rome to Roman Britain and Persia. Together they illustrate how the body in war is a vital universal element that unites these vastly different contexts. Although the centrality of the human body in war-making was recognized in antiquity, a body-centric approach to combat has yet to be widely adopted in modern Classical Studies. This collection brings together new research in ancient history, classical literature, material culture, bioarchaeology and art history within a theoretical framework drawn from recent developments in War Studies that places the body front and centre. The new perspectives it offers on brutality in battle, the physical expression of warrior identity, and post-combat remembrance and recovery challenge readers to re-assess and expand their existing ideas as part of a broader ongoing 'call to arms' to revolutionize the study of ancient warfare in the 21st century.

Contents:

List of Illustrations List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing the Body into Ancient Warfare, Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK) Part One: Brutality in the Field 1. Fighting Fit: Visualizing the Body of the Combatant, Helen Snell (University of Exeter, UK) 2. Battlefield Decapitation and Mutilation in the Ancient Greek Imagination, Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton, UK) 3. Bodies of the Military Community: A Perspective from Roman Britain, Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London, UK) and John Pearce (King's College London, UK) Part Two: Embodying Soldierly Identity 4. Clothing the Shami Prince: The Dress of Parthian Horsemen, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University, UK) 5. Roman Milites and Defeated 'Barbari': Soldierly Bodies, Dress and Identities in First-Century Tilurium, Dalmatia, Danijel Džino (Macquarie University, Australia) and Ewan Coopey (Macquarie University, Australia) 6. Embodying Military Femininity and Virgil's Camilla, Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK) Part Three: The Post-Combat Body 7. Rethinking Ancient Greek War Monuments: Bodies, Violence and Nature, Lucia Nováková (Trnava University, Slovakia) 8. Astyanax's Fate and Second-Phase Warfare in the Iliad, Hannah Sorscher (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) 9. Repairing and Reconstructing the Body of the Combatant: The Commission, Design and Manufacture of Assistive Technology for Wounded Soldiers and Veterans, Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow, UK) Conclusion: Beyond the Body of the Combatant, Annemarie Ambühl (Mainz University, Germany) References Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781350240896
• 1350240893
• 9781350240889
• 1350240885
• 9781350240872
• 1350240877

OCLC:

1443931913