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Violence and Community : Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World

Violence and Community : Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World

Violence and Community : Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World.cEleni Tounta
Violence and Community : Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World
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Author: Eleni Tounta
Number of Pages: 184 pages
Published Date: 07 Nov 2016
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781472448323
File size: 37 Mb
File Name: Violence.and.Community.Law,.Space.and.Identity.in.the.Ancient.Eastern.Mediterranean.World.pdf
Download Link: Violence and Community Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World
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Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and explore its role in community formation. This volume aims to construct such an agenda by exploring the historiography of the study of violence in antiquity, and highlighting a number of important paradoxes of ancient violence. It explores the forceful nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three major aspects that link violence and community: the attempts of communities to regulate and canalise violence through law, the constitutive role of violence in communal identities, and the ways in which communities dealt with violence in regards to private and public space, landscapes and territories. The contributions to this volume range widely in both time and space: temporally, they cover the full span from the archaic to the Roman imperial period, while spatially they extend from Athens and Sparta through Crete, Arcadia and Macedonia to Egypt and Israel.

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