„Meine Seele ist vom Sturm getrieben …“ : Die Debatte um antike Kriegstraumata und posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen im Lichte eines spätantiken Briefes (P.Oxy. 16/1873)
: Die Debatte um antike Kriegstraumata und posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen im Lichte eines spätantiken Briefes (P.Oxy. 16/1873)
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„Meine Seele ist vom Sturm getrieben …“ : Die Debatte um antike Kriegstraumata und posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen im Lichte eines spätantiken Briefes (P.Oxy. 16/1873)
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Die Debatte um antike Kriegstraumata und posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen im Lichte eines spätantiken Briefes (P.Oxy. 16/1873)
Beteiligte:
Reinard, Patrick;
Rollinger, Christian
Beschreibung:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A contribution to a scholarly controversy that has been on-going for a quarter century now, this article provides a critical review of previous studies on the existence of post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) as a consequence of extreme violence in the ancient world. It highlights methodological difficulties in attempting to ‘diagnose’ psychological illnesses across a distance of more than two millennia by means of highly stylized literary texts. Simultaneously, it introduces crucial new evidence in the form of a late antique papyrus originally published in 1924 (P.Oxy. 16/1873), which has hitherto been almost completely ignored by scholarship. The papyrus, a letter written by a man called Martyrios in sixth century Lycopolis and addressed to his father, recounts psychological war trauma as a result of an attack on his hometown. He does so in a first-person perspective, using a highly select and unusual vocabulary to describe his emotional impairment. Because of its syntactical and vocabulary extravagance, this letter is sometimes seen as a fictional literary reflex. The authors argue, on the contrary, that this letter is the only reliable documentary evidence for psychological war trauma from the ancient world known so far.</jats:p>