{"product_id":"landscapes-of-war-in-greek-and-roman-literature-9781350192218","title":"Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eLandscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Acknowledgements  Introduction (Marian W. Makins, Temple University, USA, and Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Groningen University, The Netherlands)    \u003cb\u003ePart I Perception and Experience of War Landscapes\u003c\/b\u003e    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 \u003ci\u003eAb urbe Condita\u003c\/i\u003e (Virginia Fabrizi, Independent Researcher, Italy)    3. The Challenge of Historiographic \u003ci\u003eEnargeia\u003c\/i\u003e and the Battle of Lake Trasimene (Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, USA)    \u003cb\u003ePart II Landscapes of Ruin and Recovery\u003c\/b\u003e    4. The Problems with Agricultural Recovery in Lucan’s Civil War Narrative (Laura Zientek, Reed College, USA)    5. Landscapes in Sophocles’ \u003ci\u003eOedipus at Colonus\u003c\/i\u003e 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)    \u003cb\u003ePart III Controlling Landscapes and the Symbolism of Power\u003c\/b\u003e    7. Justifying Civil War: Interactions between Caesar and the Italian Landscape in Lucan’s Rubicon Passage (\u003ci\u003eBC\u003c\/i\u003e1.183–235) (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 \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e: The War between Niger and Severus (Karine Laporte, Leiden University, the Netherlands)    \u003cb\u003ePart IV Memory in War Landscapes\u003c\/b\u003e    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 \u003ci\u003eBellum Civile \u003c\/i\u003eand the Former Yugoslavia (Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College, USA)    Notes  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019635196247,"sku":"9781350192218","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350192218.jpg?v=1750780853","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscapes-of-war-in-greek-and-roman-literature-9781350192218","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}