Landscapes of War in Greek and Roman Literature

Bettina Reitz-Joosse is Associate Professor of Latin Literature at Groningen University, The Netherlands. Her work focuses on the relationship between literary texts and material culture in the ancient Roman world and on the reception of antiquity under Italian Fascism. She is co-author of The Codex Fori Mussolini (2016).Marian W. Makins is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Greek and Roman Classics at Temple University, USA. Her research interests include literary responses to war, death and commemoration in the ancient Roman world, as well as classical receptions.C. J. Mackie is Professor of Classics at La Trobe University, Australia. He has written widely on Roman and Greek antiquity, especially Vergil, Homer and Greek mythology. More recently, he has developed interests in the Gallipoli/Dardanelles region through time, and in classical reception studies. He is co-editor of Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory (2016).

This volume is an important contribution to the scholarship on ancient narratives of landscapes and geography and their role in historiography and literature generally.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction (Marian W. Makins, Temple University, USA, and Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Groningen University, The Netherlands)Part I Perception and Experience of War Landscapes1. Homer’s Landscape of War: Spatial Mental Model and Cognitive Collage (Elizabeth Minchin, Australian National University, Australia)2. War, Weather and Landscape in Livy’s Ab urbe Condita (Virginia Fabrizi, Independent Researcher, Italy)3. The Challenge of Historiographic Enargeia and the Battle of Lake Trasimene (Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University, USA)Part II Landscapes of Ruin and Recovery4. The Problems with Agricultural Recovery in Lucan’s Civil War Narrative (Laura Zientek, Reed College, USA)5. Landscapes in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and the Poetry of the First World War (William Brockliss, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA)6. Dissenting Voices in Propertius’ Post-war Landscapes (Marian W. Makins, Temple University, USA)Part III Controlling Landscapes and the Symbolism of Power7. Justifying Civil War: Interactions between Caesar and the Italian Landscape in Lucan’s Rubicon Passage (BC1.183–235) (Esther Meijer, Durham University, UK)8. Writing a Landscape of Defeat: The Romans in Parthia (Bettina Reitz-Joosse, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)9. Landscape and Character in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire: The War between Niger and Severus (Karine Laporte, Leiden University, the Netherlands)Part IV Memory in War Landscapes10. Seascapes of War: Herodotus’ Littoral Gaze on the Battle of Salamis (Janric van Rookhuijzen, Leiden University, The Netherlands)11. War in a Landscape: The Dardanelles from Homer to Gallipoli (C. J. Mackie, La Trobe University, Australia)12. Mutable Monuments and Mutable Memories in Lucan’s Bellum Civile and the Former Yugoslavia (Jesse Weiner, Hamilton College, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex