"This volume explores a broad range of perceptions, receptions and constructions of the soldierly body in the ancient world, putting the notion of embodiment at the forefront of its engagement with ancient warfare. Individual chapters draw on detailed case studies to examine the sensory and bodily experience of combat across wide-ranging time periods and geographies, from classical Greece and Rome to Roman Britain and Iran. Together they illustrate how the body in war is a vital universal element that unites these vastly different contexts"--
"This volume explores a broad range of perceptions, receptions and constructions of the soldierly body in the ancient world, putting the notion of embodiment at the forefront of its engagement with ancient warfare. Individual chapters draw on detailed case studies to examine the sensory and bodily experience of combat across wide-ranging time periods and geographies, from classical Greece and Rome to Roman Britain and Iran. Together they illustrate how the body in war is a vital universal element that unites these vastly different contexts"--
List of Illustrations List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing the Body into Ancient Warfare Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol UK) Part One: Brutality in the Field 1. Fighting Fit: Visualizing the Body of the Combatant Helen Snell (University of Exeter UK) 2. Battlefield Decapitation and Mutilation in the Ancient Greek Imagination Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton UK) 3. Bodies of the Military Community: A Perspective from Roman Britain Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London UK) and John Pearce (King's College London UK) Part Two: Embodying Soldierly Identity 4. Clothing the Shami Prince: The Dress of Parthian Horsemen Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University UK) 5. Roman Milites and Defeated 'Barbari': Soldierly Bodies Dress and Identities in First-Century Tilurium Dalmatia Danijel Dzino (Macquarie University Australia) and Ewan Coopey (Macquarie University Australia) 6. Embodying Military Femininity and Virgil's Camilla Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol UK) Part Three: The Post-Combat Body 7. Rethinking Ancient Greek War Monuments: Bodies Violence and Nature Lucia Nováková (Trnava University Slovakia) 8. Astyanax's Fate and Second-Phase Warfare in the Iliad Hannah Sorscher ( Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany) 9. Repairing and Reconstructing the Body of the Combatant: The Commission Design and Manufacture of Assistive Technology for Wounded Soldiers and Veterans Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow UK) Conclusion: Beyond the Body of the Combatant Annemarie Ambühl (Mainz University Germany) References Index
List of Illustrations List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing the Body into Ancient Warfare Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol UK) Part One: Brutality in the Field 1. Fighting Fit: Visualizing the Body of the Combatant Helen Snell (University of Exeter UK) 2. Battlefield Decapitation and Mutilation in the Ancient Greek Imagination Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton UK) 3. Bodies of the Military Community: A Perspective from Roman Britain Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London UK) and John Pearce (King's College London UK) Part Two: Embodying Soldierly Identity 4. Clothing the Shami Prince: The Dress of Parthian Horsemen Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University UK) 5. Roman Milites and Defeated 'Barbari': Soldierly Bodies Dress and Identities in First-Century Tilurium Dalmatia Danijel Dzino (Macquarie University Australia) and Ewan Coopey (Macquarie University Australia) 6. Embodying Military Femininity and Virgil's Camilla Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol UK) Part Three: The Post-Combat Body 7. Rethinking Ancient Greek War Monuments: Bodies Violence and Nature Lucia Nováková (Trnava University Slovakia) 8. Astyanax's Fate and Second-Phase Warfare in the Iliad Hannah Sorscher ( Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany) 9. Repairing and Reconstructing the Body of the Combatant: The Commission Design and Manufacture of Assistive Technology for Wounded Soldiers and Veterans Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow UK) Conclusion: Beyond the Body of the Combatant Annemarie Ambühl (Mainz University Germany) References Index
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