ISBN:
1350128554
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9781350128583
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9781350128552
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9781350128569
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (265 Seiten)
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illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
Also published in print
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4840937
Keywords:
Crises
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Memory History To 1500
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Memory History To 1500
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Crises History To 1500
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Ancient history: to c 500 CE
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Greece Social conditions To 146 B.C
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Rome Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the 'normality' against which they are defined and framed? People living in post-crisis societies have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by whom. Due to the reduced possibility of using the immediate past, which is tainted by conflict and bad memories, it may involve revisions of historical narratives about communal pasts and identities, through the selection of new 'anchors', and sometimes even a discarding of the old ones. Crises affect all areas of life, and crisis recovery likewise spans different spheres. This volume finds traces of such recovery strategies in texts as well as visual representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; in official ideology as much as in subaltern responses. The contributors bring together the diverse testimonies for such ways of coping that have survived from antiquity."--
Abstract:
Acknowledgements Part I: Crisis: Concepts & Ideology -- 1) Introduction: What is a Crisis? Framing versus Experience Jacqueline Klooster (University of Groningen, Netherlands) and Inger Kuin (Dartmouth College, USA) -- 2) (Not) talkin' bout a revolution: Managing constitutional crisis in Athenian political thought Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge, UK) -- 3) Security: calming the soul political in the wake of civil war Michèle Lowrie (University of Chicago, USA) -- Part II: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Greece -- 4) Tragedies of War in Duris and Phylarchus: social memory and experiential history Lisa Hau (Glasgow University, UK) -- 5) Changes of Fortune: -- Polybius and the Transformation of Greece Andrew Erskine (Edinburgh University, UK) -- Part III: Crisis Traumas & Recovery: Rome -- 6) Coping With Crisis: Sulla's Civil War and Roman Cultural Identity Alexandra Eckert (Oldenburg University, Germany) -- 7) Alternative Futures in Lucan's Bellum Civile: Imagining Aftermaths of Civil War Annemarie Amb©ơhl (Mainz University, Germany) -- Part IV: Resolving Civil War -- 8) Caesar and the Crisis of Corfinium Luca 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 History Mathieu 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 Rome Josiah Osgood (Georgetown University, USA) -- 12) The Roman Family as Institution and Metaphor After the Civil Wars Andrew Gallia (University of Minnesota, USA) -- Notes Bibliography Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350128583
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