Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Informationen zum Autor Bettina Reitz-Joosse is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at Groningen University, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the relation between Latin literature and Roman material culture and on Classical Reception in Italian Fascism. Marian W. Makins is Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Classics at Temple University, USA. Her research interests include war, death, and commemoration in the ancient Roman world as well as classical receptions. C. J. Mackie is Professor of Public Scholarship and Classics at La Trobe University, Australia. He has written widely on Roman and Greek antiquity, especially Vergil, Homer and Greek mythology. More recently, he has developed interests in the Gallipoli/Dardanelles region through time, and in classical reception studies. He is co-editor of Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory (2016). Zusammenfassung In 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 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. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Groningen Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction (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 ( BC 1.183–235) (Esther Meijer, Durham University, UK) 8. Wri...

List of contents

List 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

About the author

Bettina Reitz-Joosse is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at Groningen University, The Netherlands. Her work focuses on the relationship between literary texts and material culture in the ancient Roman world and on the reception of antiquity under Italian Fascism. She is co-author of The Codex Fori Mussolini (2016).

Marian W. Makins is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Greek and Roman Classics at Temple University, USA. Her research interests include literary responses to war, death and commemoration in the ancient Roman world, as well as classical receptions.

C. J. Mackie is Professor of Classics at La Trobe University, Australia. He has written widely on Roman and Greek antiquity, especially Vergil, Homer and Greek mythology. More recently, he has developed interests in the Gallipoli/Dardanelles region through time, and in classical reception studies. He is co-editor of Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Mackie, Marian W Makins, Bettina Reitz-Joosse
• Assisted by: C. J. Mackie (Editor), Mackie C. J. (Editor), Marian W. Makins (Editor), Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781350157903
• ISBN: 978-1-350-15790-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval