After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome

Dr Jacqueline Klooster, Dr Inger N.I. Kuin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-12855-2 (ISBN)

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Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the ‘normality’ against which they are defined and framed?

People living in post-crisis societies have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by whom. Due to the reduced possibility of using the immediate past, which is tainted by conflict and bad memories, it may involve revisions of historical narratives about communal pasts and identities, through the selection of new ‘anchors’, and sometimes even a discarding of the old ones.

Crises affect all areas of life, and crisis recovery likewise spans different spheres. This volume finds traces of such recovery strategies in texts as well as visual representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; in official ideology as much as in subaltern responses. The contributors bring together the diverse testimonies for such ways of coping that have survived from antiquity.

Jacqueline Klooster is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her publications include Poetry as Window and Mirror: Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry (2011), The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literature, Ancient and Modern (with Jo Heirman, 2013), Homer and the Good Ruler: The Reception of Homeric Epic as Princes’ Mirror (with B. van den Berg, 2018). Inger N.I. Kuin is Assistant Professor of Classics, General Faculty, at the University of Virginia, USA. Her publications include Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC–100 AD) (with T.M. Dijkstra, M. Moser, and D. Weidgenannt, 2017), as well as several articles on imperial Greek literature and Latin epigraphy.

Acknowledgements

Part I: Crisis: Concepts & Ideology

1) Introduction: What is a Crisis? Framing versus Experience
Jacqueline Klooster (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Inger Kuin (Dartmouth College, USA)

2) (Not) talkin’ bout a revolution: Managing constitutional crisis in Athenian political thought
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge, UK)

3) Security: calming the soul political in the wake of civil war
Michèle Lowrie (University of Chicago, USA)

Part II: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Greece

4) Tragedies of War in Duris and Phylarchus: social memory and experiential history
Lisa Hau (Glasgow University, UK)

5) Changes of Fortune: Polybius and the Transformation of Greece
Andrew Erskine (Edinburgh University, UK)

Part III: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Rome

6) Coping With Crisis: Sulla’s Civil War and Roman Cultural Identity
Alexandra Eckert (Oldenburg University, Germany)

7) Alternative Futures in Lucan’s Bellum Civile: Imagining Aftermaths of Civil War
Annemarie Ambühl (Mainz University, Germany)

Part IV: Resolving Civil War

8) Caesar and the Crisis of Corfinium
Luca Grillo (University of North Carolina, USA)

9) Young Caesar and the Termination of Civil War (31–27 BCE)
Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg University, Denmark)

10) Agrippa’s odd Speech in Cassius Dio’s Roman History
Mathieu de Bakker (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Part IV: Civil War & the Family

11) The Fate of the Lepidani: Civil War and Family History in First Century BCE Rome
Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University, USA)

12) The Roman Family as Institution and Metaphor After the Civil Wars
Andrew Gallia (University of Minnesota, USA)

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.02.2020
Zusatzinfo	12 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-12855-4 / 1350128554
ISBN-13	978-1-350-12855-2 / 9781350128552
Zustand	Neuware