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

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.

The volume as a whole came together well and the contributions not only interact with one another, but also individually tend to advance the discussion. As a result it is certain to stimulate further work. This volume elegantly deals with the topic of crisis and its sequel in a coherent and insightful manner that makes it extremely useful for courses and seminars at the graduate and post-graduate level. With its focus on the political and socio-cultural trauma of civil war and conquest, this volume constitutes a significant contribution to trauma and memory studies.

• AcknowledgementsPart I: Crisis: Concepts & Ideology 1) Introduction: What is a Crisis? Framing versus ExperienceJacqueline Klooster (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Inger Kuin (Dartmouth College, USA) 2) (Not) talkin’ bout a revolution: Managing constitutional crisis in Athenian political thoughtTim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge, UK)3) Security: calming the soul political in the wake of civil warMichèle Lowrie (University of Chicago, USA)Part II: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Greece 4) Tragedies of War in Duris and Phylarchus: social memory and experiential historyLisa Hau (Glasgow University, UK)5) Changes of Fortune: Polybius and the Transformation of GreeceAndrew Erskine (Edinburgh University, UK)Part III: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Rome 6) Coping With Crisis: Sulla’s Civil War and Roman Cultural IdentityAlexandra Eckert (Oldenburg University, Germany)7) Alternative Futures in Lucan’s Bellum Civile: Imagining Aftermaths of Civil WarAnnemarie Ambühl (Mainz University, Germany)Part IV: Resolving Civil War 8) Caesar and the Crisis of CorfiniumLuca 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 HistoryMathieu 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 RomeJosiah Osgood (Georgetown University, USA)12) The Roman Family as Institution and Metaphor After the Civil WarsAndrew Gallia (University of Minnesota, USA)NotesBibliographyIndex