Lawrence A Tritle

Biographic Data

ID1108592
NAMELawrence A Tritle
GIVEN NAMESLawrence A
FAMILY NAMETritle
SIGNATURETRITLE L A
AFFILIATIONSHistory, Loyola Marymount University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • Epilogue

    Thomas G Palaima, Lawrence A TritleCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of warfare in…2019

    In this short discussion Tom Palaima explores the literary impact of classical war, warriors, and authors into the modern world, while L. Tritle traces more historical traditions.

  • Hector’s Body

    Lawrence A TritleCHAPTERArmies of Classical Greece2017

    The very experience of war is a brutalizing process in which human beings sometimes get caught up in the cycle of violence and commit what can only be regarded as the basest of acts, killing civilians and unarmed soldiers, and in extreme moments mutilating their enemies. The Greeks lived in a world in which violence was a commonplace and memories of it confronted them virtually everyday and in many ways. Evidence for the mutilation of the dead in…

  • Men at War

    Lawrence A TritleCHAPTERThe Oxford handbook of warfare in…2013

    This chapter elaborates the understanding on Greek and Roman men at war. Preparation for battle in the ancient world was carefully approached. Military training at Rome was no less severe and regimented than in early Sparta. The ferocity and brutality in the killing zone of battle have no limits. Examples of atrocity and mutilation appear from the very beginning of Greek literature. Mutilation of the dead was an example of what the modern world k…

  • The Greek World in the Fourth Century

    Lawrence A TritleBOOKGreek World in the Fourth Century2013Cited by: 4

    The contributors in this volume present a systematic survey of the struggles of Athens, Sparta and Thebes to dominate Greece in the fourth century - only to be overwhelmed by the newly emerging Macedonian kingdom of Philip II. Additionally, the situation of Greeks in Sicily, Italy and Asia is portrayed, showing the geographical and political diffusion of the Greeks in a broader historical context.This book will provide the reader with a clearly d…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World

    J B Campbell, Brian Campbell et al.BOOKThe Oxford handbook of warfare in…2013Cited by: 9

    War lay at the heart of much of life in the classical world, from conflicts between tribes or states, internal or civil wars, or wars waged to suppress rebellions. Battles were resolved by face-to-face encounters—violent and bloody for the participants—and thus war was a very personal experience. Nevertheless, warfare and its conduct took a wider relevance far beyond the battlefield and often had significant economic, social, or political consequ…

  • Thucydides and Power Politics

    Lawrence A Tritle, Lawrence TritleCHAPTERBrill's Companion to Thucydides2006

    This chapter discusses what the term means before examining its use by Thucydides and how it plays a part in his History . In the conduct of international politics in both the ancient and modern worlds, the primary demonstration of power is provided by what its wealth and military forces are able to do. The chapter discusses Peloponnesian War as it reflects issues involving the use of power: namely, the problem of international anarchy and the ac…

  • Warfare in Herodotus

    Open AccessLawrence A Tritle, Lawrence TritleCHAPTERThe Cambridge Companion to…2006

    Towards the beginning of the fifth century BCE the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus observed that 'war is the father of all things' ( VS 22 B 53); perhaps he was influenced by the contemporary turmoil in Ionia, as the burdens of Persian rule increasingly pressed down the eastern Greeks. As John Gould remarks, however, Heraclitus' statement reveals a central truth that in the early twenty-first century we also acknowledge. Like Heraclitus and after h…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

    Open AccessRobert Fowler, Jasper Griffin et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to…2006

    Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of historical research at a time when the Greeks' tradi…

  • From Melos to My Lai

    Lawrence A TritleBOOKFrom Melos to My Lai2000

    From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War. This comparative investigation examines the nature of violence, its impact on society and culture, especially as reflected from th

  • From Melos to My Lai

    Lawrence A TritleBOOKFrom Melos to My Lai2000

  • From Melos to My Lai

    Lawrence A TritleBOOK2000

    1. A Twentieth Century American Odyssey 2. Listening to Theristes 3. Achilles and the Heroic Ideal 4. Clearchus' Story: The Heroic Ideal Transformed 5. Penelope and Waiting Wives and Lovers 6. War, Violence, and the 'Other' 7. The Historiography and Language of Violence 8. Rhetoric, Remembrance and Memory 9. The Visibly Dead: Monuments and Their Meaning 10. The Unanchored Dead: Mental Cases and Walking Wounded

  • Historical Commentary on Dinarchus' Rhetoric and Conspiracy in Later Fourth-Century Athens

    Lawrence A Tritle, Ian WorthingtonARTICLEThe Classical World1996

  • Werner Jaeger Reconsidered

    Lawrence A Tritle, William M Calder et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1996

  • Ancient and Medieval Memories

    Lawrence A Tritle, Janet ColemanARTICLEThe Classical World1994

  • Plutarch

    Lawrence A Tritle, Plutarch Plutarch et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1994

  • Shakespeare's Plutarch

    Lawrence A Tritle, Theodore Spencer et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Phocion the Good

    Donald G Kyle, Lawrence A TritleARTICLEThe Classical World1991