Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks, 1st ed. 2014 The New Antiquity Series

This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture.

Introduction: Combat Trauma: The Missing Diagnosis in Ancient Greece?; David Konstan 1. War and the City: The Brutality of War and Its Impact on the Community; Kurt A. Raaflaub 2. Phaeacian Therapy in Homer's Odyssey; William H. Race 3. Women After War: Weaving Nostos in Homeric Epic and in the Twenty-First Century; Corinne Pache 4. "Ravished Minds" in the Ancient World; Lawrence A. Tritle 5. Beyond the Universal Soldier: Combat Trauma in Classical Antiquity; Jason Crowley 6. Socrates in Combat: Trauma and Resilience in Plato's Political Theory; S. Sara Monoson 7. The Memory of Greek Battle: Material Culture as Narratives of Combat; Juan Sebastian De Vivo 8. Women and War in Tragedy; Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz 9. "He gave me his hand but took my bow": Trust and Trustworthiness in the Philoctetes and Our Wars; Nancy Sherman 10. Combat Trauma in Athenian Comedy: The Dog That Didn't Bark; Alan H. Sommerstein 11. The Battered Shield: Survivor Guilt and Family Trauma in Menander's Aspis; Sharon L. James 12. When War Is Performed, What Do Soldiers and Veterans Want to Hear and See and Why?; Thomas G. Palaima 13. Performing Memory: In the Mind and on the Public Stage; Paul Woodruff

Jason Crowley, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Juan Sebastian De Vivo, New York University, USA Sharon L. James, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA S. Sara Monoson, Northwestern University, USA Corinne Pache, Trinity University, USA Thomas G. Palaima, University of Texas at Austin, USA Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, USA William H. Race, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Kurt A. Raaflaub, Brown University, USA Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University, USA Alan H. Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK Lawrence Tritle, Loyola Marymount University, USA Paul Woodruff, University of Texas at Austin, USA.