Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Sonja Ammann , Helge Bezold , Stephen Germany , and Julia Rhyder -- Copyright Page / Sonja Ammann , Helge Bezold , Stephen Germany , and Julia Rhyder -- Preface / Sonja Ammann , Helge Bezold , Stephen Germany , and Julia Rhyder -- Abbreviations / Sonja Ammann , Helge Bezold , Stephen Germany , and Julia Rhyder -- Notes on Contributors / Sonja Ammann , Helge Bezold , Stephen Germany , and Julia Rhyder -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Sonja Ammann -- Chapter 2 The Ruins of Jericho (Joshua 6) and the Memorialization of Violence / Angelika Berlejung -- Chapter 3 Memorializing Saul’s Wars in Samuel and Chronicles / Stephen Germany -- Chapter 4 Fighting Annihilation: The Justification of Collective Violence in the Book of Esther and in Its Cultural Context / Helge Bezold -- Chapter 5 Hellenizing Hanukkah: The Commemoration of Military Victory in the Books of the Maccabees / Julia Rhyder -- Chapter 6 Memories of Violence in the Material Imagery of Carchemish and Samʾal: The Motifs of Severed Heads and the Enemy under Chariot Horses / Izak Cornelius -- Chapter 7 Israel’s Violence in Egypt’s Cultural Memory / Antonio Loprieno -- Chapter 8 Real Fights and Burlesque Parody: The Depiction of Violence in the Inaros Cycle / Damien Agut-Labordère -- Chapter 9 Material Responses to Collective Violence in Classical Greece / Nathan T. Arrington -- Chapter 10 Remembering and Forgetting the Sack of Athens / David C. Yates -- Chapter 11 The Darkest Hour (?): Military Defeats during the Second Punic War in Roman Memory Culture / Simon Lentzsch -- Chapter 12 Rebellious Narratives, Repeat Engagements, and Roman Historiography / Jessica H. Clark -- Back Matter -- Indexes / Sonja Ammann , Helge Bezold , Stephen Germany , and Julia Rhyder.

This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “vanquished” to offer a new paradigm for studying representations of past violence across diverse media, from funerary texts to literary works, chronicles, monumental reliefs, and other material artefacts such as ruins. It thus paves the way for a new comparative approach to the study of collective violence in the ancient world.

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