Brill's Companion to War Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean - (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Anci) (Hardcover)

About the Book

War and violence are fundamental to human history. This companion explores the realities, discourses, and representations of war violence in the ancient Mediterranean, offering new comparative perspectives and advancing the cultural history of violence in antiquity.

Book Synopsis

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 changing conditions of the historical practices, discourses, and representations of war violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World while also opening up comparative perspectives on war violence. The companion offers a new starting point for the study of war violence in antiquity and makes a major contribution to the cultural history of violence.

About the Author

Lennart Gilhaus (Ph.D. 2015, University of Bonn) is Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessor") for Ancient History with a Special Focus on Mediality and Digitality at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He specializes in the history of war and violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World.

Contributors are: Nathalie Barrandon, Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, Lennart Gilhaus, Raimon Graells i Fabregat, Despina Iosif, Simon Lentzsch, Christopher Malone, Dominik Maschek, Uros Matic, Nikolaus L. Overtoom, Alessandro Pace, Isabelle Pimouguet-Pédarros, Werner Riess, John Serrati, Giusto Traina, Conor Whately, Elizabeth Wolfram Thill, and David Woods.