Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome

Andromache Karanika is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. She is the author of Voices at Work: Women, Performance and Labor (2014) and has co-authored a textbook on Modern Greek. Vassiliki Panoussi is Professor of Classical Studies at William & Mary, U.S.A. She is the author of Vergil’s Aeneid and Greek Tragedy: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext (2009), and Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women’s Rituals in Roman Literature (2019).

Introduction Part 1: War Trauma 1. Aspects of Violence, Trauma, and Theater in Sophocles’ Ajax Trigg Settle 2. Combat Trauma in Vergil’s Aeneid Vassiliki Panoussi Part 2: Women and Trauma 3. Repetition, Civic Status, and Remedy: Women and Trauma in New Comedy Sharon L. James 4. Subaltern Women, Sexual Violence, and Trauma in Ovid’s Amores Jessica Wise Part 3: Collective Trauma 5. The Acropolis Burning! Reactions to Collective Trauma in the Years After 480/79 BCE Marion Meyer 6. Historiographical Trauma: The Case of Polybius Susan C. Jarratt Part 4: Natural Disasters, Exile, Captivity 7. Non est facile inter mala magna consipere: Trauma, Earthquakes, and Bibliotherapy in Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones Christopher Trinacty 8. Ovid and the Trauma of Exile Sanjaya Thakur 9. Philo’s Flaccus: Trauma, Justice, and Revenge Philip R. Bosman Part 5: Communicating Trauma 10. Learning to Bear Witness: Tragic Bystanders in Sophocles’ Trachiniae Erika L. Weiberg 11. Oedipus’ Lament: Waking and Refashioning the Traumatic Past in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus Laurialan Reitzammer 12. Troy as Trauma: Reflections on Intergenerational Transmission and the Locus of Trauma Andromache Karanika. Index