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41%OFFValerie M. Hope Eds. Anastasia Bakogianni - War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict - 9781350005884 - 9781350005884
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War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict

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Description for War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict paperback. Editor(s): Bakogianni, Anastasia; Hope, Valerie M. Num Pages: 472 pages, 15 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HBW. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
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 adapted in post-classical contexts and to what purpose? This collection of essays engages with the motif of war as spectacle through a variety of theoretical and methodological pathways and frameworks. They include the investigation of the portrayal of armed conflict in ancient Greek and Latin Literature, History ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350005884
SKU
9781350005884
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About Valerie M. Hope Eds. Anastasia Bakogianni
Anastasia Bakogianni is Lecturer in Classics at Massey University, New Zealand, and is the author of Electra Ancient and Modern: Aspects of the Tragic Heroine's Reception (2011). Valerie M. Hope is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University, UK. Her works include Roman Death: The Dying and the Dead in Ancient Rome ... Read more

Reviews for War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict
The book's greatest strength, apart from the fascinating breadth of topics under discussion, comes from its editorial organisation, which brings a logical structure with which to explore the notion of war as spectacle ... [It] offer[s] fascinating insights into Greek and Roman notions of the spectacle of war, and bring[s] into question our own fascination with warfare as a form ... Read more

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