Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean
Interplay between Conflict Narratives in different Media and Genres
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Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean
Interplay between Conflict Narratives in different Media and Genres
About this book
This volume offers novel readings of ancient conflict narratives from around the ancient Mediterranean and explores their impact on later habits of understanding and representing war, with an innovative methodological focus on narrative interplay and visualisation.
The chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which interactions between a wide array of conflict narratives – including written texts, art, sculpture and drawings – result in culturally specific ways of visualising war, especially battle. The volume covers a large range of genres from a variety of ancient cultures, including Greek, Roman, Persian, Jewish and Christian, and its innovative focus on interplay offers fresh insights into how modes of visualising war compare across time and space, as well as across different kinds of text. Covering material from the third millennium bce to the present, it also sheds new light on how different ways of visualising conflict have evolved over the centuries and continue to inform habits of visualising war today. A detailed methodological introduction lays the foundation for future studies of conflict narratives, and the volume's envoi sets the agenda for new research on visualising peace.
Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean appeals to students and scholars working across a range of disciplines, including Classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, war studies, narratology and intertextuality studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 (Inter)Visualising War: An Introduction
- 2 Bīsotūn and Darius’ Year of Battles: Representations of Warfare in Early Achaemenid Persia
- 3 Visualising War in Euripides’ Suppliant Women: Fog, Clarity and Multiple Perspectives
- 4 Visualising Battle in Image and Text: Reading Kromayer against Polybius
- 5 ‘It is God who Arbitrates the Scales of War’ – Divine Agency in Judean Portrayals of Battle against Antiochus IV Epiphanes
- 6 Model Wars: Theorising War in Greek and Roman Tactical Manuals
- 7 Divide and Conquer
- 8 Aux Armes, Architectes!: Vitruvius and the Siege(s) of Marseille
- 9 Seeing Multiple in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
- 10 Broken Stories, Broken Bodies: Fragmentation, Vision, Battle and Narrative in Silius, Martial and Trajan’s Column
- 11 Battle Narratives for the Roman Dead: Perspectives on Death and Grief from the Trojan War
- 12 Cum dico proelia, significo uictorias: Narrating War in the Panegyrici Latini
- 13 The Late-Antique Battleground of Faith: Pollentia, Samarra and the Milvian Bridge
- 14 War Stories Are World-Shaping: Tracing the ‘Feedback Loop’ between Narrative and Reality
- 15 ENVOI: From Achilles to Andromache, to Afghanistan and beyond…
- References
- Index