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Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics
Caston, Victor, Weineck, Silke-Maria
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Description for Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics
Hardcover. Editor(s): Caston, Victor; Weineck, Silke-Maria. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 612.
Many famous texts from classical antiquity—by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer—present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing vital new perspectives on conflict in our own era.
Our Ancient Wars features essays by top scholars from across academic disciplines—classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars, some with firsthand experience of war and ... Read more
Many famous texts from classical antiquity—by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer—present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing vital new perspectives on conflict in our own era.
Our Ancient Wars features essays by top scholars from across academic disciplines—classicists and historians, philosophers and political theorists, literary scholars, some with firsthand experience of war and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072989
SKU
V9780472072989
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About Caston, Victor, Weineck, Silke-Maria
Victor Caston is Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. Silke-Maria Weineck is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.
Reviews for Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics
The chapters reflects an unusual degree of thoughtfulness as well as sound scholarship. The collection will appeal to a much broader group than the academic community. All the chapters are readable by an educated general public, and the topics covered are timely and provocative.” —Rosemary Moore, University of Iowa