Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome: Representations and Reactions

ISBN-13: 9781032337517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Andromache Karanika; Vassiliki Panoussi

Opis

This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world from Greece and Rome to Judaea with a chronological range from about 8th c. BCE to 1st c. CE.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: War Trauma  1. Aspects of Violence, Trauma, and Theater in Sophocles’ Ajax Trigg Settle  2. Combat Trauma in Vergil’s Aeneid Vassiliki Panoussi  Part 2: Women and Trauma  3. Repetition, Civic Status, and Remedy: Women and Trauma in New Comedy Sharon L. James  4. Subaltern Women, Sexual Violence, and Trauma in Ovid’s Amores Jessica Wise  Part 3: Collective Trauma  5. The Acropolis Burning! Reactions to Collective Trauma in the Years After 480/79 BCE Marion Meyer  6. Historiographical Trauma: The Case of Polybius Susan C. Jarratt  Part 4: Natural Disasters, Exile, Captivity  7. Non est facile inter mala magna consipere: Trauma, Earthquakes, and Bibliotherapy in Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones Christopher Trinacty  8. Ovid and the Trauma of Exile Sanjaya Thakur  9. Philo’s Flaccus: Trauma, Justice, and Revenge Philip R. Bosman  Part 5: Communicating Trauma  10. Learning to Bear Witness: Tragic Bystanders in Sophocles’ Trachiniae Erika L. Weiberg  11. Oedipus’ Lament: Waking and Refashioning the Traumatic Past in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Laurialan Reitzammer  12. Troy as Trauma: Reflections on Intergenerational Transmission and the Locus of Trauma Andromache Karanika.  Index

O autorze

Andromache Karanika is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. She is the author of Voices at Work: Women, Performance and Labor (2014) and has co-authored a textbook on Modern Greek.

Vassiliki Panoussi is Professor of Classical Studies at William & Mary, U.S.A. She is the author of Vergil’s Aeneid and Greek Tragedy: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext (2009), and Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women’s Rituals in Roman Literature (2019).