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.
This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world, focusing on literary texts from different genres (epic, theatre, lyric poetry, philosophy, historiography) and archaeological evidence. The material covered spans geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea, with a chronological range from about 8th c. bce to 1st c. ce.
The collection is organized according to broad themes to showcase the wide range of possibilities that trauma theory offers as a theoretical framework for a new analysis of ancient sources. It also demonstrates the various ways in which ancient texts illuminate contemporary problems and debates in trauma studies.
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| Contributors |
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| Introduction |
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1 Aspects of violence, trauma, and theater in Sophocles' Ajax |
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2 Combat trauma in Vergil's Aeneid |
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3 Repetition, civic status, and remedy: Women and trauma in New Comedy |
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4 Subaltern women, sexual violence, and trauma in Ovid's Amores |
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5 The Acropolis burning!: Reactions to collective trauma in the years after 480/79 BCE |
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6 Historiographical trauma: The case of Polybius |
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PART 4 Natural disasters, exile, captivity |
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7 Non est facile inter mala magna consipere: Trauma, earthquakes, and bibliotherapy in Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones |
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8 Ovid and the trauma of exile |
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9 Philo's Flaccus: Trauma, justice, and revenge |
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PART 5 Communicating trauma |
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10 Learning to bear witness: Tragic bystanders in Sophocles' Trachiniae |
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11 Oedipus' lament: Waking and refashioning the traumatic past in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus |
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12 Troy as trauma: Reflections on intergenerational transmission and the locus of trauma |
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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 Vergils Aeneid and Greek Tragedy: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext (2009), and Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Womens Rituals in Roman Literature (2019).
