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Book SynopsisIn this open access 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. At the same time, warfare transforms landscapes, both physically and in the way in which they are later perceived and experienced.
Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature breaks new ground in exploring Greco-Roman literary responses to this complex interrelationship.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 t
Trade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction (Marian W. Makins, Temple University, USA, and Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Groningen University, The Netherlands)
Part I Perception and Experience of War Landscapes 1. Homer’s Landscape of War: Spatial Mental Model and Cognitive Collage (Elizabeth Minchin, Australian National University, Australia) 2. War, Weather and Landscape in Livy’s
Ab urbe Condita (Virginia Fabrizi, Independent Researcher, Italy) 3. The Challenge of Historiographic
Enargeia and the Battle of Lake Trasimene (Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, USA)
Part II Landscapes of Ruin and Recovery 4. The Problems with Agricultural Recovery in Lucan’s Civil War Narrative (Laura Zientek, Reed College, USA) 5. Landscapes in Sophocles’
Oedipus at Colonus and the Poetry of the First World War (William Brockliss, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA) 6. Dissenting Voices in Propertius’ Post-war Landscapes (Marian W. Makins, Temple University, USA)
Part III Controlling Landscapes and the Symbolism of Power 7. Justifying Civil War: Interactions between Caesar and the Italian Landscape in Lucan’s Rubicon Passage (
BC1.183–235) (Esther Meijer, Durham University, UK) 8. Writing a Landscape of Defeat: The Romans in Parthia (Bettina Reitz-Joosse, University of Groningen, the Netherlands) 9. Landscape and Character in Herodian’s
History of the Roman Empire: The War between Niger and Severus (Karine Laporte, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Part IV Memory in War Landscapes 10. Seascapes of War: Herodotus’ Littoral Gaze on the Battle of Salamis (Janric van Rookhuijzen, Leiden University, The Netherlands) 11. War in a Landscape: The Dardanelles from Homer to Gallipoli (C. J. Mackie, La Trobe University, Australia) 12. Mutable Monuments and Mutable Memories in Lucan’s
Bellum Civile and the Former Yugoslavia (Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College, USA) Notes Bibliography Index
