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1 online resource |
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Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
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Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication ; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction War as Spectacle, a Multi-sensory Event Worth Watching?1; Spectacles of war across ancient and modern genres and media; Spectacles of war in material culture; Spectacles of war on stage and in modern media; Part One Ancient and Modern Literary Spectacles of War A. Epic Spectacles; 2 ' What if We Had a War and Everybody Came? 'War as Spectacle and the Duel of Iliad 31; The duel; The transition from duel to warfare |
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The warfare begins: the role of the audience3 From Our Own Correspondent Authorial Commentary on the 'Spectacles of War' in Homer and in the Tale of the Heike; Authorial comments in Homer; Authorial comments in the Tale of the Heike; 4 'The Clash of Weapons and the Sight of War' Spectatorship and Identification in Roman Epic; The spectacle of war and the problem of spectator identification; Homeric origins; Economies of lives: the champions' duel and spectator identification; While the men fight below: the female teichoscopy; Death from above: the male commander's survey of the battlefield |
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Indistinguishable corpses and fameless ends: surveying the aftermath of battleConclusion: reading in peace, viewing like the gods; 5 Death on the Margins Statius and the Spectacle of the Dying Epic Hero; Canonical deaths: spectacle and space; Statius' marginal boys; Other marginal boys: Atys and Crenaeus; The crumbling edges: Hippomedon, Amphiaraus, Capaneus; Too close for comfort: Tydeus; Conclusion; B. Poetical, Historiographical and Philosophical Spectacles; 6 Lyric Visions of Epic Combat The Spectacle of War in Archaic Personal Song; Beautiful battlescapes and the drama of war |
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Anti-epicizing spectacles of warConclusion; 7 'The Greatest Runway Show in History 'Paul Violi's 'House of Xerxes' and the Herodotean Spectacle of War; Cataloguing Xerxes' army: the Herodotean archetype; Manipulating the model(s): Violi's fashion parade; War as televisual spectacle; 8 Plato's Cinematic Vision War as Spectacle in Four Dialogues (Laches, Republic, Timaeus and Critias); The Laches; The Republic; The Timaeus-Critias; 9 Shadow-Boxing in the East The Spectacle of Romano-Parthian Conflict in Tacitus; Another world?; Shadow-boxing in the east: Part One (Annals 15.1-6) |
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Shadow-boxing in the east: Part Two (Annals 15.7-17)Shadow-boxing in the east: Part Three (Annals 15.24-31); Conclusion: intersecting worlds; Abbreviations; 10 Bodies on the Battlefield The Spectacle of Rome's Fallen Soldiers; The dead in action and aftermath; The visible dead; The anonymous dead; Viewing the dead: commanders; Viewing the dead: fellow soldiers; Viewing the dead: women and elders; Conclusion; Part Two Spectacles of War in Material Culture; 11 The Monument and Altar to Liberty A Memory Site for the United States' Own Thermopylae1; The Battle of Long Island |
| Summary |
"War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources? How has this view of war been adapted in post-classical contexts and to what purpose? This collection of essays engages with the motif of war as spectacle through a variety of theoretical and methodological pathways and frameworks. They include the investigation of the portrayal of armed conflict in ancient Greek and Latin Literature, History and Material Culture, as well as the reception of these ancient narratives and models in later periods in a variety of media. The collection also investigates how classical models contribute to contemporary debates about modern wars, including the interrogation of propaganda and news coverage. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of ancient warfare and its impact, the volume looks at a variety of angles and perspectives, including visual display and its exploitation for political capital, the function of internal and external audiences, ideology and propaganda and the commentary on war made possible by modern media. The reception of the theme in other cultures and eras demonstrates its continued relevance and the way antiquity is used to justify as well as to critique later conflicts"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 25, 2015) |
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War.
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War -- History
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wars.
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armed conflicts.
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History of art: ancient & classical art, BCE to c 500 CE.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Classical history -- classical civilisation.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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War
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bakogianni, Anastasia, editor.
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Hope, Valerie M., editor
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| ISBN |
9781472524539 |
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1472524535 |
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147252229X |
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9781472522290 |
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9781472527554 |
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1472527550 |
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9781474219617 |
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1474219616 |
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