Visualising War Across the Ancient Mediterranean

Interplay Between Conflict Narratives in Different Media and Genres
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97798-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 744 g

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.

The chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which interactions between a wide array of conflict narratives – including written texts, art, sculpture and drawings – result in culturally specific ways of visualising war, especially battle. The volume covers a large range of genres from a variety of ancient cultures, including Greek, Roman, Persian, Jewish and Christian, and its innovative focus on interplay offers fresh insights into how modes of visualising war compare across time and space, as well as across different kinds of text. Covering material from the third millennium bce to the present, it also sheds new light on how different ways of visualising conflict have evolved over the centuries and continue to inform habits of visualising war today. A detailed methodological introduction lays the foundation for future studies of conflict narratives, and the volume’s envoi sets the agenda for new research on visualising peace.

Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean appeals to students and scholars working across a range of disciplines, including Classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, war studies, narratology and intertextuality studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

König, Alice

Wiater, Nicolas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antike Kriegsführung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. (Inter)Visualising War: an Introduction - Alice König; 2. Bisotun 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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).