Introduction / Jesse Weiner. Mutable monuments and mutable memories in Lucan's Bellum civile and the former Yugoslavia / Homer's landscape of war : spatial mental model and cognitive collage / Ellizabeth Minchin -- War, weather and landscape in Livy's Ab urbe condita / Virginia Fabrizi -- The challenge of historiographic Enargeia and the Battle of Lake Trasimene / Andrew Feldherr -- Landscapes of ruin and recovery. The problems with agricultural recovery in Lucan's Civil War narrative / Laura Zientek -- Landscapes in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and the poetry of the First World War / William Brockliss -- Dissenting voices in Propertius's post-war landscapes / Marian W. Makins -- Controlling landscapes and the symbolism of power. Justifying civil war : interactions between Caesar and the Italian landscape in Lucan's Rubicon passage (BC 1.183-235) / Esther Meijer -- Writing a landscape of defeat : the Romans in Parthia / Bettina Reitz-Joosse -- Landscape and character in Herodian's History of the Roman Empire : the war between Niger and Severus / Karine Laporte -- Memory in war landscapes. Seascapes of war : Herodotus's littoral gaze on the Battle of Salamis / J.Z. van Rookhuizen -- War in a landscape : the Dardanelles from Homer to Gallipoli / C.J. Mackie -- Mutable monuments and mutable memories in Lucan's Bellum civile and the former Yugoslavia / Jesse Weiner.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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