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Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Author :  Edited by  Dr Bettina Reitz-Joosse , Edited by  Marian W. Makins , Edited by  C. J. MacKie

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Country
United Kingdom
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 9781350157903
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info 296 p,156 x 234mm
Categories Classical Studies & Archaeology
Product Weight 421 gms.
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In this 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 tied to landscape in wartime or its aftermath? And in what ways did ancient war landscapes shape modern experiences and representations of war? In four sections, contributors explore combatants' perception and experience of war landscapes, the relationship between war and the natural world, symbolic and actual forms of territorial control in a military context, and war landscapes as spaces of memory. Several contributions focus especially on modern intersections of war, landscape and the classical past.

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