Preface
List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Notes on Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1 Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean
Society
Brian Turner and Jessica H. Clark
Part 2: The Ancient Near East
2 Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian Understanding of Defeat
Sarah C. Melville
3 The Assassination of Tissaphernes: Royal Responses to Military
Defeat in the Achaemenid Empire
Jeffrey Rop
4 Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander’s Conquest, and the Experience of
Defeat
John O. Hyland
Part 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World
5 Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His
Audience
Edith Foster
6 Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat
Max L. Goldman
7 Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very
Real Sellasia
Matthew Trundle
8 “No Strength To Stand”: Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class,
and Ptolemaic Decline
Paul Johstono
Part 4: The Roman World
9 Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain
Jessica H. Clark
10 The Ones Who Paid the Butcher’s Bill: Soldiers and War Captives
in Roman Comedy
Amy Richlin
11 Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy
of Rome
Ida Östenberg
12 Imperial Reactions to Military Failures in the Julio-Claudian
Era
Brian Turner
13 “By Any Other Name”: Disgrace, Defeat, and the Loss of Legionary
History
Graeme A. Ward
14 Recycling the Classical Past: Rhetorical Responses from the
Roman Period to a Military Loss in Classical Greece
Sviatoslav Dmitriev
15 The Roman Emperor as Persian Prisoner of War: Remembering
Shapur’s Capture of Valerian
Craig H. Cald
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Part 5: Epilogue
Epilogue
Nathan Rosenstein
Index
Jessica H. Clark (PhD Princeton, 2008) is Assistant Professor of
Classics at Florida State University. Her publications include
Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic (Oxford,
2014) and articles on the representation of war in Livy and
Vergil.
Brian Turner (PhD UNC-Chapel Hill, 2010) is Associate Professor of
History at Portland State University. His research interests
include Roman warfare and ancient geography.
Contributors are: Craig Caldwell, Jessica H. Clark, Sviatoslav
Dmitriev, Edith Foster, Max Goldman, John Hyland, Paul Johstono,
Sarah Melville, Ida Östenberg, Amy Richlin, Nathan Rosenstein,
Jeffrey Rop, Matthew Trundle, Brian Turner, Graeme A. Ward.
''In the requisite introductory essay the editors (who are also
contributors) contextualize the problem in terms of historiography
and adumbrate each contributor’s major point(s). Refreshingly for
books of this type, an epilogue written by historian Nathan
Rosenstein (who was one of the first to recognize the importance of
the topic) lucidly discusses the major themes of the very different
essays and indicates further avenues of research (readers may wish
to read this section directly after the introduction). (...) In the
present atmosphere of blame assignment and “fake news,” this book
will provide insights on how ancient societies perceived,
interpreted, and manipulated military failure.'' R.T. Ingoglia,
Choice 2018.55.08
“The diversity of topics surveyed in this volume, in conjunction
with the plethora of wide- ranging cultural comparisons, mean that
it will be of interest not only to military historians but also to
scholars of international relations, state doctrines, philosophical
schools, and historiography (…) With the majority providing new
insights into the differing ways in which defeat was experienced by
the societies of the ancient Mediterranean, the volume is certain
to become essential reading for anyone interested in military
failure in antiquity. Overall, this is an important and engaging
collection of essays which makes both a welcome and important
contribution to an increasingly topical subject.” By Mark Woolmer
in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.02.07
"The volume leaves the reader with a better understanding of how
ancient societies reacted to defeat. The contributions are
generally stimulating and the volume as a whole is well-conceived
and executed. Several contributions will be of interest to a wider
readership, and this is in no small part to their success in
engaging with some well-worn topics and somehow succeeding to say
something new about them." Alun D. Williams in CJ-Online 2019.01.04
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