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After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome (Paperback)
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After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome (Paperback)
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Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of
individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community
for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how
such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how
communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises
serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this
work? What do crises reveal about the 'normality' against which
they are defined and framed? People living in post-crisis societies
have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such
adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the
pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by
whom. Due to the reduced possibility of using the immediate past,
which is tainted by conflict and bad memories, it may involve
revisions of historical narratives about communal pasts and
identities, through the selection of new 'anchors', and sometimes
even a discarding of the old ones. Crises affect all areas of life,
and crisis recovery likewise spans different spheres. This volume
finds traces of such recovery strategies in texts as well as visual
representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; in
official ideology as much as in subaltern responses. The
contributors bring together the diverse testimonies for such ways
of coping that have survived from antiquity.
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