Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean

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.

Autorentext

Alice König is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews (UK). Co-founder of the Visualising War and Peace project, she has published on ancient military manuals, literary and cross-cultural interactions in the Roman empire, and ancient and modern discourses of peace and conflict.

Nicolas Wiater is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews (UK). His research focuses on late Hellenistic and early imperial Greek prose. His publications include The Ideology of Classicism (2011) and Late Hellenistic Literature in Dialogue (2022, edited with J. König).

Inhalt

1. (Inter)Visualising War: an Introduction - Alice König; 2. B sot n and Darius' Year of Battles: Representations of Warfare in early Achaemenid Persia - John O. Hyland; 3. Visualising War in Euripides' Suppliant Women: Fog, Clarity and Multiple Perspectives - Jon Hesk; 4. Visualising Battle in Image and Text: Reading Kromayer against Polybius - Nicolas Wiater; 5. *'It is God that Arbitrates the Scales of War': Divine Agency in Judean Portrayals of Battle against Antiochus IV Epiphanes - Debra Scoggins Ballentine; 6. Model Wars: Theorizing War in Greek and Roman Tactical Manuals - Courtney Roby; 7. Divide and Conquer - Andrew Riggsby; 8. Aux Armes, Architectes! Vitruvius and the Siege(s) of Marseille - John Oksanish; 9. Seeing Multiple in Lucan's Bellum Civile - Hannah-Marie Chidwick; 10. Broken Stories, Broken Bodies: Fragmentation, Vision, Battle and Narrative in Silius, Martial and Trajan's Column - Helen Lovatt; 11. Battle Narratives for the Roman Dead: Perspectives on Death and Grief from the Trojan War - Zahra Newby; 12. Cum dico proelia, significo uictorias: Narrating War in the Panegyrici Latini -Catherine Ware; 13. The Late-Antique Battleground of Faith: Pollentia, Samarra and the Milvian Bridge - Michael Hanaghan; 14. War Stories are World-Shaping: Tracing the 'Feedback Loop' between Narrative and Reality - Alice König; 15. Envoi: From Achilles to Andromache, to Afghanistan, and beyond... - Alice König, Jennie Dunne and Jonathan D'Young.*