Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 283 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004683181
Series Statement:
Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 135
Content:
"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 Assyria, Babylonia, 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"--
Note:
" Most of the essays in this volume originated in a seminar series hosted by the University of Basel in September–December 2020, entitled“Historical Narratives and Memorialization of Collective Violence in Antiquity", ..."
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004683174
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Collective violence and memory in the ancient Mediterranean Leiden : Brill, 2024 ISBN 9789004683174
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1163/9789004683181
Author information:
Germany, Stephen 1985-
Author information:
Ammann, Sonja 1984-
Author information:
Rhyder, Julia 1987-
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