{"id":360,"date":"2015-09-14T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T09:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/?p=360"},"modified":"2016-03-07T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:35:50","slug":"publication-announcement-war-as-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Publication announcement: War as Spectacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/War-as-Spectacle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-361 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/War-as-Spectacle-201x300.png\" alt=\"War as Spectacle\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/War-as-Spectacle-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/War-as-Spectacle-686x1024.png 686w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/War-as-Spectacle-624x930.png 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/War-as-Spectacle.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a>This autumn sees the publication of an edited volume to which several members of the OU Classical Studies department have contributed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/war-as-spectacle-9781472522290\/\"><em>War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed<\/em> <em>Conflict\u00a0<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Bloomsbury) originated in an OU\u00a0conference organised by Anastasia Bakogianni during her time in the department, and is co-edited by Anastasia and Valerie Hope, as well as featuring essays by Laura Swift, Naoko Yamagata and Emma Bridges.<\/p>\n<p>The book takes an interdisciplinary and transhistorical\u00a0approach, comprising eighteen essays which examine the ways in which war was presented as a multi-sensory spectacle in ancient texts and material culture as well as considering the reception of\u00a0ancient conflicts since antiquity. Themes include the spectacle of combat in epic and lyric poetry, historiography and commemorative monuments as well as post-classical responses to ancient warfare, with chapters on film and the media, theatre\u00a0and political propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the publication of <em>War as Spectacle <\/em>Anastasia has recorded two interviews for <a href=\"http:\/\/classicsconfidential.co.uk\/\">Classics Confidential<\/a>. You can\u00a0see Sonya Nevin talking about her work animating hoplite scenes on\u00a0ancient vase paintings <a href=\"http:\/\/classicsconfidential.co.uk\/2015\/09\/09\/hoplite\/\">here<\/a>, and Anastasia talks <a href=\"http:\/\/classicsconfidential.co.uk\/2015\/09\/12\/bakogianni\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0about her own chapter\u00a0discussing the Euripidean anti-war trilogy of film director Michael Cacoyannis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This autumn sees the publication of an edited volume to which several members of the OU Classical Studies department have contributed. War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict\u00a0\u00a0(Bloomsbury) originated in an OU\u00a0conference organised by Anastasia Bakogianni during her time in the department, and is co-edited by Anastasia and Valerie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,8,18],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-armed-conflict","tag-classical-reception","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/classicalstudies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}