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Our Ancient Wars : Rethinking War through the Classics

by: Caston, V. Weineck, S.-M.

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Category: Ancient Warfare / Military Studies
Code: 21315
ISBN-13: 9780472052981 / 978-0-472-05298-1
ISBN-10: 0472052985 / 0-472-05298-5
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2016
Publication Place: Ann Arbor
Binding: Paper
Pages: 289
Book Condition: New
Comments: Explores how classical Greek literature provides timeless insights into the complexities of wars both ancient and modern

Our Ancient Wars : Rethinking War Through the Classics
Authors:Victor Caston (Editor), Silke-Maria Weineck (Editor)

Features essays by scholars from across academic disciplines - classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars - engaging with classical texts to understand how differently they were read in other times and places. Contributors articulate difficult but necessary questions about contemporary conceptions of war and conflict.

Contents:
Part I: 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
Part II: 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
Part III: 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

 
 
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Our Ancient Wars : Rethinking War through the Classics

by: Caston, V. Weineck, S.-M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780472052981 / 978-0-472-05298-1
  • ISBN-03: 0472052985 / 0-472-05298-5
  • University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2016

Price: 59,36 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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