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The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean
The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean
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ISBN No.: 9781350240865
Pages: 256
Year: 202608
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 53.23
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

List of Illustrations List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing the Body into Ancient Warfare, Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK) Part One: Brutality in the Field 1. Fighting Fit: Visualizing the Body of the Combatant, Helen Snell (University of Exeter, UK) 2. Battlefield Decapitation and Mutilation in the Ancient Greek Imagination, Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton, UK) 3. Bodies of the Military Community: A Perspective from Roman Britain, Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London, UK) and John Pearce (King's College London, UK) Part Two: Embodying Soldierly Identity 4. Clothing the Shami Prince: The Dress of Parthian Horsemen, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University, UK) 5. Roman Milites and Defeated 'Barbari': Soldierly Bodies, Dress and Identities in First-Century Tilurium, Dalmatia, Danijel Dzino (Macquarie University, Australia) and Ewan Coopey (Macquarie University, Australia) 6. Embodying Military Femininity and Virgil's Camilla, Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK) Part Three: The Post-Combat Body 7. Rethinking Ancient Greek War Monuments: Bodies, Violence and Nature, Lucia Nováková (Trnava University, Slovakia) 8.


Astyanax's Fate and Second-Phase Warfare in the Iliad, Hannah Sorscher ( Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany ) 9. Repairing and Reconstructing the Body of the Combatant: The Commission, Design and Manufacture of Assistive Technology for Wounded Soldiers and Veterans, Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow, UK) Conclusion: Beyond the Body of the Combatant, Annemarie Ambühl (Mainz University, Germany) References Index.


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