Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 War and the City: The Brutality of War and Its Impact on the Community

Chapter 3 Phaeacian Therapy in Homer’s Odyssey

Chapter 4 Women after War: Weaving Nostos in Homeric Epic and in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 5 “Ravished Minds” in the Ancient World

Chapter 6 Beyond the Universal Soldier: Combat Trauma in Classical Antiquity

Chapter 7 Socrates in Combat: Trauma and Resilience in Plato’s Political Theory

Chapter 8 The Memory of Greek Battle: Material Culture and/as Narrative of Combat

Chapter 10 “He Gave Me His Hand but Took My Bow”: Trust and Trustworthiness in the Philoctetes and Our Wars

Chapter 11 Combat Trauma in Athenian Comedy: The Dog That Didn’t Bark

Chapter 12 The Battered Shield: Survivor Guilt and Family Trauma in Menander’s Aspis

Chapter 13 When War Is Performed, What Do Soldiers and Veterans Want to Hear and See and Why?

Chapter 14 Performing Memory: In the Mind and on the Public Stage