| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 305 pages) |
| Contents |
The psychological preparation for war: the effects of the "rhetoric of visibility" on military training / Anna Busetto -- Declamation of war: the vir fortis and the quest for old values and new answers in Roman imperial declamation / Stephanie Kirsch -- Athens as a "landscape of trauma": Phrynichus' Sack of Miletus and the aftermath of the Persian Wars / Giorgia Proietti -- A small part of you be brought home in an urn for her to mourn: commemorating the war dead in the Roman republic and the early empire / Simon Lentzsch -- Coping prayers on the home front: the case of collective supplications at Rome / Maik Patzelt -- "He has saved us without wall, and taught us that he is our wall": Eastern Roman cities under divine protection / Christian Schönburg -- "You can tell a woman a long way off by the way she throws": women and war in Ancient Greece / Jorit Wintjes -- The dark side of war: war wounded and dissenters in the Athenian theatre of the late 5th century / Lucia Cecchet -- The demographic impact of war on the home front during the reign of Philip V of Macedon / Michael Kleu -- Reading male bodies: the fate of a veteran in Livy 2.23 / Christopher Degelmann -- Athens, the Ionians and the "netting" of the islands / Emanuele Pulvirenti |
| Summary |
This volume presents a first comprehensive contribution to the exploration of the concept of the 'home front' in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It crosses borders between different areas of classical studies by investigating the various forms of impact that war had on the ancient home front. To this end, the book deploys a variety of methodological approaches that shed light on several aspects of the home front. These draw on advances made in the fields of psychology, literature, history, social sciences and religious studies. The volume discusses the impact of war on the civilian communities in te |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
War and society -- Rome
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War and society -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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War and society
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Rome (Empire)
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cecchet, Lucia, editor.
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Degelmann, Christopher, editor.
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Patzelt, Maik, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781527540781 |
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1527540782 |
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