1st Edition
Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean Interplay between Conflict Narratives in different Media and Genres
List of Figures ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
1 (Inter)Visualising War: An Introduction 1
ALICE KÖNIG
2 Bīsotūn and Darius’ Year of Battles: Representations of Warfare in Early Achaemenid Persia 30
JOHN O. HYLAND
3 Visualising War in Euripides’ Suppliant Women: Fog, Clarity and Multiple Perspectives 50
JON HESK
4 Visualising Battle in Image and Text: Reading Kromayer against Polybius 67
NICOLAS WIATER
5 ‘It is God who Arbitrates the Scales of War’ – Divine Agency in Judean Portrayals of Battle against Antiochus IV Epiphanes 84
DEBRA SCOGGINS BALLENTINE
6 Model Wars: Theorising War in Greek and Roman Tactical Manuals 103
COURTNEY ROBY
7 Divide and Conquer 123
ANDREW RIGGSBY
8 Aux Armes, Architectes!: Vitruvius and the Siege(s) of Marseille 139
JOHN OKSANISH
9 Seeing Multiple in Lucan’s Bellum Civile 155
HANNAH-MARIE CHIDWICK
10 Broken Stories, Broken Bodies: Fragmentation, Vision, Battle and Narrative in Silius, Martial and Trajan’s Column 170
HELEN LOVATT
11 Battle Narratives for the Roman Dead: Perspectives on Death and Grief from the Trojan War 197
ZAHRA NEWBY
12 Cum dico proelia, significo uictorias: Narrating War in the Panegyrici Latini 217
CATHERINE WARE
13 The Late-Antique Battleground of Faith: Pollentia, Samarra and the Milvian Bridge 231
MICHAEL HANAGHAN
14 War Stories Are World-Shaping: Tracing the ‘Feedback Loop’ between Narrative and Reality 244
ALICE KÖNIG
15 ENVOI: From Achilles to Andromache, to Afghanistan and beyond… 268
ALICE KÖNIG, JENNIE DUNNE AND JONATHAN D’YOUNG
References 285
Index 317
Biography
Alice König is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews (UK). Co-founder of the Visualising War and Peace project, she has published on ancient military manuals, literary and cross-cultural interactions in the Roman empire, and ancient and modern discourses of peace and conflict.
Nicolas Wiater is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews (UK). His research focuses on late Hellenistic and early imperial Greek prose. His publications include The Ideology of Classicism (2011) and Late Hellenistic Literature in Dialogue (2022, edited with J. König).
