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

by Konstantinos Vlassopoulos

While various aspects of violence (warfare, murder, theft, piracy) have been long studied on their own, there has been little effort to study violence as a unified field and to explore its role in community formation. This volume examines the historiography of the study of violence in antiquity and highlights a number of important paradoxes of violence. It explores the nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three major aspects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472448324
• ISBN13: 9781472448323
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"