The Waters of Lethe as the Only cure for a Martial Life: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Homecoming Soldier Topics in HBO’s Rome
Abstract A transversal issue through the ages, post-traumatic stress disorder and problems concerning soldier’s adaptation to civilian life were as present in Antiquity as they are nowadays. Mainly a film studies essay, the present text is an attempt to understand how HBO’s Rome series more or less covert allusion to post-traumatic stress disorder might have resonated in audiences marked by this clinical condition, and the specific context of American filmic production in the first, war-driven, decade of the 21st Century. By way of introduction, we will first carry out a survey regarding the complex relation the public establishes with modern representations of the past to, subsequently, dissect some crucial narrative points which we take as illustrative paradigms. Through a close analysis, almost a diagnosis process, of the two main characters, Pullo and Vorenus, we intend to show how post-traumatic stress disorder representations are imbedded in those characters and to what extent the staging of this problem using an Antiquity background may be understood as a symbolic metaphor in the new millennium.
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Cyrino MS. Introduction. In Cyrino MS editor. Rome, Season One: History Makes Television, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
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Glantz A. The War Comes Home: Washington’s battle against America’s Veterans. Berkeley: University of Califórnia Press; 2009.
Goldsworthy A. Roman Warfare. London: HarperCollins; 2002.
Haynes H. Rome’s Opening Titles: Triumph Spectacle, and Desire. In: Cyrino MS, editor. Rome, Season One: History Makes Television. Oxford: Blackwell; 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444301540.ch4
Lockett C. Accidental History: Mass Culture and HBO’s Rome, Journal of Popular Film and Television 2010; 38(3):102-112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01956050903449632
Matsakis A. Three Faces of Post-Traumatic Stress: Ares, Hercules, and Hephaestus. In Cosmopoulos MB, editor. Experiencing War: Trauma and Society from Ancient Greece to the War in Iraq, Chicago: Ares Publishers, 2007.
Nadelson T. Trained to Kill: Soldiers at War. London: Johns Hopkins University Press; 2005.
Pittman ML. Authorizing Shakespeare in Film and Television: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Adaptation. Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers; 2010.
Shay J. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, New York: Atheneum; 1994.
Shay J. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of the Homecoming. New York and London: Scribner; 2002.
Theodorakopoulos E. Ancient Rome at the Cinema: Story and Spectacle in Hollywood and Rome. Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010.
Weber C. Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics, and Film, London: Routledge; 2006.
Westwell G. War Cinema: Hollywood on the Front Line, London: Wallflower; 2006.
Wyke M. Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History. New York: Routledge; 1997.
Rui Graça, A. (2013). The Waters of Lethe as the Only cure for a Martial Life: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Homecoming Soldier Topics in HBO’s Rome. Journal of Medicine and Movies, 9(1), 21–30. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/cinco/index.php/medicina_y_cine/article/view/13679
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