Conflict landscapes and violence

 Christiane Kunst and  Nicole Diersen

The research team for the student project 'Battlefield Narratives' explores well-known and lesser-known battlefields (initially) of Roman antiquity as part of the Conflict Landscapes group - from the Battle of the Allia to the famous battles with Carthage (Lake Trasimeno, Cannae and Zama) and the clashes with the kings in the Greek East (Kynoskephalai, Magnesia) or the so-called barbarians (Mons Graupius, Catalaunian Fields) to the numerous civil war battles such as the battles at Cremona...

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 Christiane Kunst

The Ancient History team presents its latest research volume:

Alexander the Great at the Granikos: the narrative of battle as a site of conflict. Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption. Volume 22, Rahden 2018.

In the spring of 334 BC, Alexander the Great encountered a Persian army for the first time at the Granikos River in the Troad, in the northwest of modern-day Turkey. The victory of the Macedonian-Greek units against the multi-ethnic Persian army became a symbol of the young Macedonian king's successful policy of conquest in the years that followed. This assessment is based on different discourses about the events, which identify the Granikos as a landscape of conflict on various levels.

 Maik Patzelt

Co-edited by our former assistant Dr. Maik Patzelt, who was currently a Feodor Lynen Fellow at the History Department of the University of Sheffield, UK, the anthology "The Ancient War's Impact on the Homefront" was published in early November 2019.

Further information can be found at:   http://cambridgescholars.com/the-ancient-wars-impact-on-the-home-front