Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean

"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 essen...

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Main Author: Ammann, Sonja (-)
Other Authors: Bezold, Helge, Germany, Stephen, Rhyder, Julia
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : BRILL 2023.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Culture and History of the Ancient near East Series
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009781222206719
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (303 pages)
ISBN:9789004683181