Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature
«This volume is an important contribution to the scholarship on ancient narratives of landscapes and geography and their role in historiography and literature generally.»
Hamish Cameron, Lecturer in Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
In this volume, literary scholars and ancient historians from across the globe investigate the creation, manipulation and representation of ancient war landscapes in literature. Landscape can spark armed conflict, dictate its progress and influence the affective experience of its participants. Les mer
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Drawing on current ideas in cognitive theory, memory studies, ecocriticism and other fields, its individual chapters engage with such questions as: how did the Greeks and Romans represent the effects of war on the natural world? What distinctions did they see between spaces of war and other landscapes? How did they encode different experiences of war in literary representations of landscape? How was memory tied to landscape in wartime or its aftermath? And in what ways did ancient war landscapes shape modern experiences and representations of war?
In four sections, contributors explore combatants’ perception and experience of war landscapes, the relationship between war and the natural world, symbolic and actual forms of territorial control in a military context, and war landscapes as spaces of memory. Several contributions focus especially on modern intersections of war, landscape and the classical past.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 296
- ISBN
- 9781350192218
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«This volume is an important contribution to the scholarship on ancient narratives of landscapes and geography and their role in historiography and literature generally.»
Hamish Cameron, Lecturer in Classics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand