After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in A... - 9781350193680

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After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and RomeAuthor(s): Jacqueline Klooster, Inger N.I. Kuin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350193680, 978-1350193680\nSynopsis\nCrises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the normality against which they are defined and framed?\n\n People living in post-crisis societies have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by w.