Our Ancient Wars - Rethinking War Through the Classics (Paperback)

Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer-present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing vital new perspectives on conflict in our own era. Our Ancient Wars features essays by top scholars from across academic disciplines-classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars, some with firsthand experience of war and some without-engaging with classical texts to understand how differently they were read in other times and places. Contributors articulate difficult but necessary questions about contemporary conceptions of war and conflict. Contributors include Victor Caston, Page duBois, Susanne Goedde, Peter Meineck, Sara Monoson, David Potter, Kurt Raaflaub, Arlene Saxonhouse, Seth Schein, Nancy Sherman, Hans van Wees, Silke-Maria Weineck, and Paul Woodruff.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2016
Editors:	Victor Caston • Silke-Maria Weineck
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-05298-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	0-472-05298-5
Barcode:	9780472052981

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