Collective violence and memory in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Sonja Ammann, Helge Bezold, Stephen Germany, Julia Rhyder

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bezold, Helge, author, editor.

Germany, Stephen, author, editor.

Rhyder, Julia, 1987- author, editor.

Contributor:

Ammann, Sonja, 1984- editor.

Series:

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 135.

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Mediterranean Region--History.

Violence.

Collective memory--Mediterranean Region--History.

Collective memory.

War in literature.

War--Biblical teaching.

War.

Violence in literature.

Violence in art.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

Physical Description:

xvii, 283 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Ruins of Jericho (Joshua 6) and the Memorialization of Violence / Angelika Berlejung

Memorializing Saul's Wars in Samuel and Chronicles / Stephen Germany

Fighting Annihilation: The Justification of Collective Violence in the Book of Esther and in Its Cultural Context / Helge Bezold

Hellenizing Hanukkah: The Commemoration of Military Victory in the Books of the Maccabees / Julia Rhyder

Memories of Violence in the Material Imagery of Karkamiš and Samʼal: The Motifs of Severed Heads and the Enemy Under Chariot Horses / Izak Cornelius

Israel's Violence in Egypt's Cultural Memory / Antonio Loprieno

Real Fights and Burlesque Parody: The Depiction of Violence in the Inaros Cycle / Damien Agut-Labordère

Material Responses to Collective Violence in Classical Greece / Nathan T. Arrington

Remembering and Forgetting the Sack of Athens / David C. Yates

The Darkest Hour (?): Military Defeats during the Second Punic War in Roman Memory Culture / Simon Lentzsch

Rebellious Narratives, Repeat Engagements, and Roman Historiography / Jessica H. Clark.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789004683174

9004683178

OCLC:

1395536644

Publisher Number:

9789004683174