Brill's Companion to Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Warfare

This volume contains contributions from global experts on the nature of military courage and cowardice in ancient Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, Israel, and Egypt. Using ground-breaking concepts in human emotions (including fear), behavior (bravery, boldness, recklessness, flight), and motivation (tangible and intangible rewards), the book problematizes traditional dichotomies associated with expected reactions to danger on the battlefield. In analyses of historiography, epic, epigraphy, numismatics, philosophy, and myth, authors demonstrate that no individual was impervious to the stresses of ancient battle. Most importantly, the volume encourages a new paradigmatic continuum for understanding the range of these conceptual terms in ancient military history.

Jenn Finn, Ph.D. (2012, 2015), is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She regularly publishes on ancient warfare, cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean, first millennium BCE empires, and revisionist history.

Contributors are: Jenn Finn, David Potter, Sabine Müller, Lee Brice, Angela Hobbs, Jared Secord, Matthew Christ, Philippe Clancier Gina Konstantopoulos, Katherine Lu Hsu, Philip de Souza, Emrys Schlatter, Andrei Zavaliy, John Hyland, Sarah Melville, Rhiannon Ash, Sara Phang, Kathryn Milne, Edith Foster, Lidewij van Gils, Luuk Huitink, Anthony Spalinger, Philip Rance, Charlie Trimm, Nikolaus Overtoom, Cezary Kucewicz.