The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean

Hannah-Marie Chidwick is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol, UK.

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Introduction: Writing the Body into Ancient Warfare, Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK)

Part One: Brutality in the Field
1. Fighting Fit: Visualizing the Body of the Combatant, Helen Snell (University of Exeter, UK)
2. Battlefield Decapitation and Mutilation in the Ancient Greek Imagination, Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton, UK)
3. Bodies of the Military Community: A Perspective from Roman Britain, Rebecca Redfern (Museum of London, UK) and John Pearce (King’s College London, UK)

Part Two: Embodying Soldierly Identity
4. Clothing the Shami Prince: The Dress of Parthian Horsemen, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University, UK)
5. Roman Milites and Defeated ‘Barbari’: Soldierly Bodies, Dress and Identities in First-Century Tilurium, Dalmatia, Danijel Džino (Macquarie University, Australia) and Ewan Coopey (Macquarie University, Australia)
6. Embodying Military Femininity and Virgil’s Camilla, Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol, UK)

Part Three: The Post-Combat Body
7. Rethinking Ancient Greek War Monuments: Bodies, Violence and Nature, Lucia Nováková (Trnava University, Slovakia)
8. Astyanax’s Fate and Second-Phase Warfare in the Iliad, Hannah Sorscher (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)
9. Repairing and Reconstructing the Body of the Combatant: The Commission, Design and Manufacture of Assistive Technology for Wounded Soldiers and Veterans, Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow, UK)

Conclusion: Beyond the Body of the Combatant, Annemarie Ambühl (Mainz University, Germany)

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