A cultural history of genocide in the ancient world
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A cultural history of genocide in the ancient world
（The cultural histories series, . A cultural history of genocide / general editor,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
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ISBN for subseries (6 v. set): 9781350034600
Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-264) and index
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Description
The preamble to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide recognizes "that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity". Studies of the phenomenon of genocide have, however, tended to concentrate on the modern world. The original contributions in this volume turn the focus to the question of genocide and mass violence in the ancient world, with a particular emphasis on the worlds of Greece, Rome and the Near East.
This volume presents a range of views on the challenges of applying the modern concept of "genocide" to an ancient context. It also considers the causes, motivations, and justifications of ancient mass violence, as well as contemporary responses to, and critiques of, such violence, along with how mass violence was represented and remembered in ancient literature and iconography. In addition, chapters analyse what drove the perpetrators of mass violence, and the processes of victimization, as well as the consequences of mass violence and ravaging warfare, including in particular mass enslavement and sexual violence.
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General Editor's Preface, Paul R. Bartrop
Introduction, Tristan S. Taylor
1. Causes, Charlie Trimm
2. Motivations and Justifications, David Konstan
3. Perpetrators, Shawn Kelley
4. Victims, Richard J. G. Evans
5. Responses, David John Colwill
6. Consequences, Kathy L. Gaca
7. Representations, Clemens Koehn
8. Memory, Sarah Lawrence
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