War as Spectacle. Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict (original) (raw)

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: War as Spectacle, a Multi-sensory Event Worth Watching? Anastasia Bakogianni Part 1 Ancient and Modern Literary Spectacles of War A. Epic Spectacles 2 'What if We Had a War and Everybody Came?': War as Spectacle and the Duel of Iliad 3 (Tobias Myers, Connecticut College, USA) 3 From Our Own Correspondent: Authorial Commentary on the 'Spectacles of War' in Homer and in the Tale of the Heike (Naoko Yamagata, The Open University, UK) 4 'The Clash of Weapons and the Sight of War': Spectatorship and Identification in Roman Epic (Neil W. Bernstein, Ohio University, USA) 5 Death on the Margins: Statius and the Spectacle of the Dying Epic Hero (Helen Lovatt, University of Nottingham, UK) B. Poetical, Historiographical and Philosophical Spectacles 6 Lyric Visions of Epic Combat: The Spectacle of War in Archaic Personal Song (Laura Swift, The Open University, UK) 7 'The Greatest Runway Show in History': Paul Violi's 'House of Xerxes' and the Herodotean Spectacle of War (Emma Bridges, The Open University, UK) 8 Plato's Cinematic Vision: War as Spectacle in Four Dialogues (Laches, Republic, Timaeus and Critias) (Andrea Capra, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy) 9 Shadow-Boxing in the East: The Spectacle of Romano-Parthian Conflict in Tacitus (Rhiannon Ash, University of Oxford, UK) 10 Bodies on the Battlefield: The Spectacle of Rome's Fallen Soldiers (Valerie M. Hope, The Open University, UK) Part 2 Spectacles of War in Material Culture 11 The Monument and Altar to Liberty: A Memory Site for the United States' Own Thermopylae (Jared A. Simard, CUNY, USA) 12 Triumphal Washington: New York City's First 'Roman' Arch (Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, CUNY, USA) 13 An Unwinding Story: The Influence of Trajan's Column on the Depiction of Warfare (Andrew Fear, University of Manchester, UK) Part 3 Spectacles of War on Stage and in Modern Media 14 Epic Parodies: Martial Extravaganzas on the Nineteenth-Century Stage (Justine Mc Connell, University of Oxford, UK) 15 Parading War and Victory under the Greek Military Dictatorship: The Hist(o)rionics of 1967-74 (Gonda Van Steen, University of Florida, USA) 16 The Anti-War Spectacle: Denouncing War in Michael Cacoyannis' Euripidean Trilogy (Anastasia Bakogianni, The Open University, UK) 17 Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line and Homeric Epic: Spectacle, Simile, Scene and Situation (Jon Hesk, University of St Andrews, UK) 18 Animating Ancient Warfare: The Spectacle of War in the Panoply Vase Animations (Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, UK) Notes Bibliography Index