Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War Through the Classics

by Silke-Maria Weineck and Victor Caston

Book Overview

Many famous texts from classical antiquity--by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer--present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472052985
• ISBN13: 9780472052981
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"