Our ancient wars : rethinking war through the classics / edited by Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck.
Material type: TextDescription: pages cmISBN:- 9780472072989 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780472052981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 355.02 23
- U33 .O93 2016
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Circulating | Philip Becker Goetz Library | U33 .O93 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rethinking the ancient, in view of the modern -- Genocide in archaic and classical Greece / Hans van Wees -- Lysistrata and war's impact on the home front / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- "War guilt," "national character," "inevitable forces," and the problematic historiography of "unnecessary wars" / David Potter -- Socrates' military service / S. Sara Monoson -- Rethinking the modern, in view of the ancient -- Moral injury, damage, and repair / Nancy Sherman -- War as education / Paul Woodruff -- Deciding to go to war: who is responsible? / Arlene W. Saxonhouse -- Combat trauma and the tragic stage: ancient culture and modern catharsis / Peter Meineck -- Other moderns, other ancients -- War, what is it good for in Homer's Iliad and four receptions? / Seth L. Schein -- Modern Achilles: the beauty of war and the battle of the sexes / Susanne Gödde -- "I am Spartacus": ancient war and slavery in the movies / Page Dubois -- Epilogue: distances / Silke-Maria Weineck.
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