Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society / / editors, Jessica H. Clark, Brian Turner.

• Superior document: Brill's companions in classical studies warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world ; Volume 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Clark, Jessica Homan, 1980-; Turner, Brian (historian),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions in classical studies warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society /; Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian Understanding of Defeat /; The Assassination of Tissaphernes: Royal Responses to Military Defeat in the Achaemenid Empire /; Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander’s Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat /; Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His Audience /; Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat /; Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia /; “No Strength To Stand”: Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class, and Ptolemaic Decline /; Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain /; The Ones Who Paid the Butcher’s Bill: Soldiers and War Captives in Roman Comedy /; Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy of Rome /; Imperial Reactions to Military Failures in the Julio-Claudian Era /; “By Any Other Name”: Disgrace, Defeat, and the Loss of Legionary History /; Recycling the Classical Past: Rhetorical Responses from the Roman Period to a Military Loss in Classical Greece /; The Roman Emperor as Persian Prisoner of War: Remembering Shapur’s Capture of Valerian /; Looking Ahead /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004355774
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: editors, Jessica H. Clark, Brian Turner.

In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society , Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed – or failed to address – their military defeats and casualties of war. Original case studies illuminate not only how political and military leaders managed the political and strategic consequences of military defeats, but also the challenges facing defeated soldiers, citizens, and other classes, who were left to negotiate the meaning of defeat for themselves and their societies. By focusing on the connections between war and society, history and memory, the chapters collected in this volume contribute to our understanding of the ubiquity and significance of war losses in the ancient world.