Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-29858-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 693 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classica

In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed – or failed to address – their military defeats and casualties of war. Original case studies illuminate not only how political and military leaders managed the political and strategic consequences of military defeats, but also the challenges facing defeated soldiers, citizens, and other classes, who were left to negotiate the meaning of defeat for themselves and their societies. By focusing on the connections between war and society, history and memory, the chapters collected in this volume contribute to our understanding of the ubiquity and significance of war losses in the ancient world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

H. Clark, Jessica

Turner, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antike Kriegsführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Notes on Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1 Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society
Brian Turner and Jessica H. Clark

Part 2: The Ancient Near East

2 Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian Understanding of Defeat
Sarah C. Melville

3 The Assassination of Tissaphernes: Royal Responses to Military Defeat in the Achaemenid Empire
Jeffrey Rop

4 Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander’s Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat
John O. Hyland

Part 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World

5 Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His Audience
Edith Foster

6 Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat
Max L. Goldman

7 Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia
Matthew Trundle

8 “No Strength To Stand”: Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class, and Ptolemaic Decline
Paul Johstono

Part 4: The Roman World

9 Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain
Jessica H. Clark

10 The Ones Who Paid the Butcher’s Bill: Soldiers and War Captives in Roman Comedy
Amy Richlin

11 Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy of Rome
Ida Östenberg

12 Imperial Reactions to Military Failures in the Julio-Claudian Era
Brian Turner

13 “By Any Other Name”: Disgrace, Defeat, and the Loss of Legionary History
Graeme A. Ward

14 Recycling the Classical Past: Rhetorical Responses from the Roman Period to a Military Loss in Classical Greece
Sviatoslav Dmitriev

15 The Roman Emperor as Persian Prisoner of War: Remembering Shapur’s Capture of Valerian
Craig H. Cald
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Part 5: Epilogue

Epilogue
Nathan Rosenstein

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica H. Clark (PhD Princeton, 2008) is Assistant Professor of Classics at Florida State University. Her publications include Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic (Oxford, 2014) and articles on the representation of war in Livy and Vergil.

Brian Turner (PhD UNC-Chapel Hill, 2010) is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University. His research interests include Roman warfare and ancient geography.

Contributors are: Craig Caldwell, Jessica H. Clark, Sviatoslav Dmitriev, Edith Foster, Max Goldman, John Hyland, Paul Johstono, Sarah Melville, Ida Östenberg, Amy Richlin, Nathan Rosenstein, Jeffrey Rop, Matthew Trundle, Brian Turner, Graeme A. Ward.