Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature – eBook

In this volume, Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature (PDF), 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 physically and in how 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 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 war experiences in literary representations of the 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 memory spaces. Several contributions focus primarily on modern intersections of war, landscape, and the classical past.

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