Brill's Companion to War Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean /

Brill's Companion to War Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean /

War belongs among the most elementary phenomena in human history. Brill's Companion on War Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean explores the many faces of war violence in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The contributors reveal the range, contradictions, ambivalences and changin...

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Other Authors: Gilhaus, Lennart (Editor), Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies ; .
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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Egyptology.
Ancient Near East and Egypt.

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Call Number: R930

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations and Spellings
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Part 1 Introduction
  • 1 War Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World: an Introduction
  •   Lennart Gilhaus
  • Part 2 Representations and Narrations
  • 2 To Kill Like a God and to Kill Like a Man: the Ontological Turn and Ancient Egyptian Violence in War
  •   Uroš Matić
  • 3 The Iconography of War Violence in Archaic Greece: Vase Painting and Other Media
  •   Alessandro Pace
  • 4 Frontier Conflicts in a Capital Context: Military Violence and Roman Monumental Reliefs
  •   Elizabeth Wolfram Thill
  • 5 Extreme Violence in Roman Warfare: the Latin "Language of Transgression"
  •   Nathalie Barrandon
  • 6 Violence Against Foreigners and Citizens: Caesar's Distinct Strategies of Violence in His Gallic and Civil War
  •   Werner Riess
  • 7 Ammianus Marcellinus on the Need for Military Violence in an Era of Christian "Effeminacy"
  •   David Woods
  • 8 Praise and Blame for Imperial Violence in Late Antique Panegyric
  •   Christopher Malone
  • Part 3 Practices and Dynamics
  • 9 Wounds, Weapons, and Warfare: Anthropological and Archaeological Evidence for War Violence in the Archaic and Classical Greek World
  •   Raimon Graells i Fabregat
  • 1 Extreme Acts of War Violence in the Formation of the Parthians' Image and Empire
  •   Nikolaus L. Overtoom
  • 11 War, Extreme Violence, and Transgression: Definitions and Case Studies for the Hellenistic Period
  •   Isabelle Pimouguet-Pédarros
  • 12 Extreme Violence in the Context of Sieges in the Mid-Republican Period (Third to Second Centuries BCE)
  •   Simon Lentzsch
  • 13 The Violence of the Ten Thousand: Dynamics and Practices of a Greek Community of Violence
  •   Lennart Gilhaus
  • 14 Raiding and Violence in Roman Arabia during the Imperial Era
  •   Conor Whately
  • Part 4 Conditions and Consequences
  • 15 Wartime Rape in Ancient Egypt, Assyria, and Israel: the Differing Perspectives of the Powerful and the Weak
  •   Charlie Trimm
  • 16 One of the Olynthians: Dem. 19.196-98 and Violence against Enslaved Female War Captives
  •   Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld
  • 17 War as Controlled Violence: Masculinity and Female Agency in the Roman Republic
  •   John Serrati
  • 18 To Kill, or Not to Kill, That Was the Question? Early Christian Pacifism Revisited
  •   Despina Iosif
  • 19 From Fregellae to Actium: the Quality, Scale, and Socio-cultural Impact of Organized Violence in Late Republican Italy
  •   Dominik Maschek
  • Part 5 Epilogue
  • 2 Epilogue: Reflections on Violence in Ancient Warfare
  •   Giusto Traina
  • Index.