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War as spectacle : ancient and modern perspectives on the display of armed conflict /
"War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources? How has this view of war been...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2015.
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication ; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction War as Spectacle, a Multi-sensory Event Worth Watching?1; Spectacles of war across ancient and modern genres and media; Spectacles of war in material culture; Spectacles of war on stage and in modern media; Part One Ancient and Modern Literary Spectacles of War A. Epic Spectacles; 2 ' What if We Had a War and Everybody Came? 'War as Spectacle and the Duel of Iliad 31; The duel; The transition from duel to warfare.
- The warfare begins: the role of the audience3 From Our Own Correspondent Authorial Commentary on the 'Spectacles of War' in Homer and in the Tale of the Heike; Authorial comments in Homer; Authorial comments in the Tale of the Heike; 4 'The Clash of Weapons and the Sight of War' Spectatorship and Identification in Roman Epic; The spectacle of war and the problem of spectator identification; Homeric origins; Economies of lives: the champions' duel and spectator identification; While the men fight below: the female teichoscopy; Death from above: the male commander's survey of the battlefield.
- Indistinguishable corpses and fameless ends: surveying the aftermath of battleConclusion: reading in peace, viewing like the gods; 5 Death on the Margins Statius and the Spectacle of the Dying Epic Hero; Canonical deaths: spectacle and space; Statius' marginal boys; Other marginal boys: Atys and Crenaeus; The crumbling edges: Hippomedon, Amphiaraus, Capaneus; Too close for comfort: Tydeus; Conclusion; B. Poetical, Historiographical and Philosophical Spectacles; 6 Lyric Visions of Epic Combat The Spectacle of War in Archaic Personal Song; Beautiful battlescapes and the drama of war.
- Anti-epicizing spectacles of warConclusion; 7 'The Greatest Runway Show in History 'Paul Violi's 'House of Xerxes' and the Herodotean Spectacle of War; Cataloguing Xerxes' army: the Herodotean archetype; Manipulating the model(s): Violi's fashion parade; War as televisual spectacle; 8 Plato's Cinematic Vision War as Spectacle in Four Dialogues (Laches, Republic, Timaeus and Critias); The Laches; The Republic; The Timaeus-Critias; 9 Shadow-Boxing in the East The Spectacle of Romano-Parthian Conflict in Tacitus; Another world?; Shadow-boxing in the east: Part One (Annals 15.1-6)
- Shadow-boxing in the east: Part Two (Annals 15.7-17)Shadow-boxing in the east: Part Three (Annals 15.24-31); Conclusion: intersecting worlds; Abbreviations; 10 Bodies on the Battlefield The Spectacle of Rome's Fallen Soldiers; The dead in action and aftermath; The visible dead; The anonymous dead; Viewing the dead: commanders; Viewing the dead: fellow soldiers; Viewing the dead: women and elders; Conclusion; Part Two Spectacles of War in Material Culture; 11 The Monument and Altar to Liberty A Memory Site for the United States' Own Thermopylae1; The Battle of Long Island.