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Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World

by Michael Champion , Lara O'Sullivan
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781472486417
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 282
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 554 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient / Greece

Violence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a period in which warfare became more professionalised, and wars increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in political structures that led to political and cultural experimentation and transformation in which the political and cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism. Finally, and in a similar way, it saw expanded opportunities for cultural transfer in cities through (re)constructions of urban space. Violence thus entered the city through external military and political shocks, as well as within emerging social hierarchies and civic institutions. Such factors also inflected economic activity, religious practices and rituals, and the artistic, literary and philosophical life of the polis.

Michael Champion is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Explaining the Cosmos: Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late Antiquity (2014) and co-editor of Understanding Emotions in Early Europe (2015).

Lara O'Sullivan is a lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Demetrius of Phalerum: A Philosopher in Politics 317-307 BCE (2009). Her main research interests lie in classical and Hellenistic Athenian history and culture.

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