Did Ajax and Achilles ever suffer from Post-traumatic stress
syndrome?
In this absorbing account, Vietnam veteran and classics scholar
Lawrence A Tritle offers an incisive analysis of war and its impact
upon the soldier and civilian from the classical age to the present
day.
Tritle discusses the links between battlefield experiences that
affect the participants and victims of war in every age, drawing
examples from sources as diverse as the Iliad, Michael Herr's
Dispatches, Thucydides' account of the Pelopenesian Wars, and the
Oliver Stone film Platoon. Each instance sheds light on some of the
most puzzling phemonena of war and shows how the heroes of epic
responded to battle with their own forms of "shellshock,"
battle-madness and bonding. Tritle examines such issues as:
How can ordinarily decent men can commit acts of extraordinary
savagery?
Attitudes toward the "enemy"
The impact of war on waiting wives, lovers and civilian
bystanders
Remembering the fallen soldier: from the classic Athenian funeral
speech to the Vietnam Wall
How veterans live with physical and psychological injury
This memorable book is for readers who wonder about the meaning and
experience of battle, about the impact of war and violence on our
culture, and for anyone interested in the culture of ancient
Greece.
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