Ammann, Sonja
(ed.) (...)
Editorial: Brill
Colección: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 135
Número de páginas: 300 págs.
Fecha de edición: 05-10-2023
EAN: 9789004683174
ISBN: 978-90-04-68317-4
Precio (sin IVA): 110,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 114,40 €
This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representations of past violence across diverse media, from funerary texts to literary works, chronicles, monumental reliefs, and other material artefacts such as ruins. It thus paves the way for a new comparative approach to the study of collective violence in the ancient world.